Posted on 06/18/2011 2:40:32 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Via Playbook, John McCain raps the Republican presidential field for what he sees as an isolationist strain that's emerging as the candidates shift away from strict hawkishness on foreign policy, and which cropped up at the New Hampshire debate last Monday.
From the pre-taped interview with "This Week:"
McCAIN: “Well, I was more concerned about what the candidates in New Hampshire the other night said. This is isolationism. There's always been an … isolation strain on the Republican Party — that Pat Buchanan wing of our party. But now it seems to have moved more center stage, so to speak. … If we had not intervened, Gadhafi was at the gates of Benghazi. He said he was going to go house to house to kill everybody. That's a city of 700,000 people. What would be saying now if we had allowed for that to happen?”
AMANPOUR: “Well, you were one of the key supports. And what you're talking is all the Republicans on the stage of that debate on Monday seeming to waver from what's a traditional Republican position on national security.”
McCAIN: “Yes, I wonder what Ronald Reagan would be saying today.”
AMANPOUR: “What would he be saying today? If he heard, for instance, Michele Bachmann or Mitt Romney?”
McCAIN: “He would be saying: That's not the Republican Party of the 20th century, and now the 21st Century. That is not the Republican Party that has been willing to stand up for freedom for people for all over the world, whether it be in Grenada — that Ronald Reagan had a quick operation about — or whether it be in our enduring commitment to countering the Soviet Union.”
The shift away from positions calling for military engagement - most clearly articulated by Jon Huntsman so far among the current candidates, with his call for a clear troop drawn-down from Afghanistan - would have been unimaginable four years ago when McCain was the nominee. It reflects, at minimum, a weariness among the electorate at large with the drawn-out wars in the Mideast.
Still, having McCain be vocal about the militarism of his party's candidate could prove problematic for the eventual nominee.
Why are we in Libya?
Same reason that Eisenhower told Briton and France get out of the Suez Canal.
OIL
If McCain is even allowed to attend the GOP convention they would deserve to lose.
McCain who? Is he still relevant?
Globalist dope.
(McCain, not you)
I wish this a-hole would just retire and enjoy his golden years.
McCain, Boehner, McConnell, birds of a feather........
Who has slaughtered more people in Iran where they bury people up to their neck and stone them to death while they are hanging homosexuals in the streets?
This ‘standing for freedom’ and ‘protecting civilians’ is complete, total, utter, nonsense. Otherwise, we would be in every Muslim country in the world.
Nonsense! BS!
One thing about McCain is, he never disappoints...
Isolationist. The epithet used by any Interventionist to attack anyone who wants to thwart the Interventionist’s manuevers toward War.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I think we should isolate ourselves from the muslim world. Sure China and other nations would rush in for oil but that just means they’ll be getting our muslim problems as well.
For that matter, China wouldn’t be so politically correct when it comes to correcting islamic bad behavior.
Republicans want a sensible “war” policy, one which doesn’t jump into boondoggles like Obama is inclined to do, but ready to stamp out any global flare-up that significantly threatens America’s well being. I don’t think McCain’s carping will change many minds if the eventual candidate is firm and clear about his or her “war” policy.
That’s a pretty broad brush..and your Man/Women for Pres is?
Yeah, let China put on the mantle of the Great Satan for a while and see how it feels... oil is fungible and if we drill, baby, drill (and dig, baby, dig in the oil sands and oil shale) we can eventually cede the Arab oil problem to China.
This requires an actual coherent, long term energy policy.
Obama wants to be able to bomb anyone he wants, anytime he wants, for any reason he wants.
Obama has already ‘conquered’ most of the commercial economic systems in America. He has Healthcare, Insurance, Government Motors, EPA controlling Energy, Housing and Mortgages, et al. He has his illegal, unapproved gaggle of Czars. Now, he wants the military too.
Now that IS dictatorship. No hyperbole intended.
McCain and his ilk are the damn problem and that is why the msm push them............romney is more of the same.
I followed mother Mccain, swallowed the castor oil, that was her son to defeat obama,unbelievably a even bigger enemy to the state.
I won't do it again, even if I have to write in I will vote for good not the least evil.
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