Posted on 02/17/2017 3:05:59 PM PST by mandaladon
Arizona Sen. John McCain delivered a series of blows to President Donald Trump Friday during a speech in Germany, and at one point he compared today's political atmosphere to the Nazi years of the 1930s and 1940s.
"In the four decades I have attended this conference, I cannot recall a year where its purpose was more necessary or more important," said McCain, who never mentioned Trump by name during his speech at the Munich Security Conference but referenced his policies several times.
"This panel is going to ask us to consider whether the West will survive. In recent years, this question would invite accusations of hyperbole and alarmism. Not this year. If ever there was a time to treat this question with a deadly seriousness, it is now."
While making his case, McCain who like Trump is a Republican mentioned Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist. Von Kleist was part of the group that plotted to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944.
"What would von Kleist's generation say if they saw our world today?" McCain asked. "I fear that much about it would be all too familiar for them. And they would be alarmed by it."
McCain then tried to dismantle Trump's foreign policy (America First), his recent immigration order that critics called a Muslim ban, and some of the alleged untruths that have emerged from Trump's White House.
"They would be alarmed by an increasing turn away from universal values and toward old ties of blood, and race, and sectarianism. They would be alarmed by the hardening resentment we see toward immigrants, and refugees, and minority groups, especially Muslims," McCain said.
"They would be alarmed by the growing inability, and even unwillingness, to separate truth from lies.
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Series of blows? More like a series of attempted ankle nips for the senile Chihuahua.
Senile old man drools some more BS
He's among friends over there.
I cannot understand the good people of Arizona electing this nothing. I wish he would be honest and switch his party registration to Democratic.
McCain is Obama’s inside man inside ,LOL
What a pathetic, self-important blowhard!
In 40+ years, worst vote I ever cast was for McCain in 2008, and I did so only b/c Sarah Palin was his running mate. Ignorant, arrogant, dangerous old fool who never saw a war he didn’t like. Remember, he got into the Naval Academy b/c his father & grandfather were grads and admirals/senior officers, and he graduated almost at the bottom of his class. Little private sector experience. Dunce.
McCain should be arrested.
whatever happened to politics stops at the shore....
I never thought I’d say this, but
FOAD McLame
I hate your Fn guts
I don’t see McCain’s remarks to be as potent, or patently anti-US, as some interpret them to be. The global struggle writ large is between Western Civilization and the the rest. McCain falls squarely on the side of the former. Yes, he is a globalist meddler. Not good. He’ll have to deal with the will of the people at some point. But “traitor” and “shadow government conspirator” have a ring of desperation one might better ascribe to the uninformed and those who would make fake enemies on the basis of fake news.
Seconded.
He’s all for “the West” and it’s freedoms in one breath and for a Muslim invasion of America and Europe in the next breath. He’s stupid.
Not to mention seditious.
Doesn’t have the balls to say it on American soil, like his puppet-master bHo.
We survuved you and Barack Obama so I think we will be okay!
McCain is on the take from the muslims.
Yes. Barack Hussein was no danger to the US, but Trump is.
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