Alliance into the 21st century

The Australian ^ | September 23, 2008 | John McCain

[Free ThinkerNY]

A LITTLE more than 100 years ago, president Theodore Roosevelt's Great White Fleet steamed into Sydney Harbour. Hundreds of thousands of Australians cheered the 16 battleships that would circumnavigate the globe as a demonstration that America was now a Pacific and a world power. On board the gunboat Panay, patrolling the Philippine archipelago, a young midshipman named John Sidney McCain - my grandfather - shared in the navy's pride at Roosevelt's audacious gesture. Only two years out of the naval academy, my grandfather would shortly be promoted to ensign and assigned to the flagship USS Connecticut for the fleet's triumphant return to the US.

In the middle of 1908, Australians and Americans recognised immediately the kindred spirit of two rugged and energetic peoples separated by half the globe but united by shared hopes for mankind. That initial friendship would be forged into an inseparable bond through many struggles in the years to come. Ten years after the Great White Fleet left Sydney Harbour, American soldiers would serve under Australian general John Monash at the decisive Battle of Hamel on the Western Front. My father and grandfather would both serve side by side with the Royal Australian Navy in the Pacific theatre, turning back the Japanese tide and then building a post-war network of alliances that would usher in a new era of peace and prosperity in Asia.

From Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan, I have seen first-hand how succeeding generations of young Americans and Australians have been ready to step forward together to defeat aggression and provide relief and recovery for the stricken.

A century ago, Roosevelt understood the sources and purpose of American power.

[PhilosopherStones]

Except for the climate change crap, not a bad piece.

[rabscuttle385]

Australians have looked to the US for leadership on climate change and it is time for us to answer that call. I support a market-based cap-and-trade system aimed at reducing carbon emissions, and I will work with Australia and other nations to establish a global framework that encourages China and India to join us in becoming part of the solution to man-made climate change.

McCain is still McCain.

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[rabscuttle385]

How did we miss this instance of McCain being McCain? This damn editorial by McCain himself (less than two weeks old) has carbon cap-and-trade in it.

[rabscuttle385]

McCain is still mouthing off about climate change.

[Checkers]

29 more days of this and we’ll never hear from McCain again.

[BufordP]

Made me laugh!

[Checkers]

I’m here all week.

[calcowgirl]

More free trade! Woohoo! More job losses will bring on that recession, for sure!

[jddqr]

That in and of itself would be a big silver lining to an Obama presidency :)

[steelyourfaith]

From the link:
McCain:"Australians have looked to the US for leadership on climate change and it is time for us to answer that call. I support a market-based cap-and-trade system aimed at reducing carbon emissions, and I will work with Australia and other nations to establish a global framework that encourages China and India to join us in becoming part of the solution to man-made climate change."

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[rabscuttle385]

McCain harping about climate change as recently as September 23, plus his October 2 remarks (”I have respect for Al Gore”), show that he has not changed his intent, no matter what conservatives say.

[calcowgirl]

Palin/Biden Debate, October 2, 2008:

(snip)

IFILL: We do need to keep within our two minutes. 
But I just wanted to ask you, do you support capping 
carbon emissions?

PALIN: I do. I do.

[Checkers]

The silverlining is recreating 1994 and then recreating 1980...

[Checkers]

I’ll cut Sarahcuda some slack on this one.

She’s being a LOYAL running mate.

[steelyourfaith]

I noticed when she responded with that --- which was very painful for me to hear.

Sarah's my candidate in this race, but one thing she has seemed to waver on is her position in regard to Anthropogenic Global Warming ™Anthropogenic Climate Change ™.

There seemed to be some conflicting pre-VP-nomination statements, then she seemed to be espousing skeptic/denier rhetoric, and then this. Who knows her position for sure?