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Is McCain Beyond His Prime?
National Interest ^ | March 21, 2017 | Doug Bandow

Posted on 03/25/2017 11:01:12 AM PDT by WilliamIII

Doug Bandow March 21, 2017 TweetShareShare Printer-friendly version Sen. John McCain has the reputation of a foreign-policy maven. He pays attention to little other than foreign affairs. When he ran for president in the midst of the 2008 financial crisis, he admitted that he didn’t know much about economics, which helped doom his candidacy. Unfortunately, he shows no greater sophistication when it comes to his favorite topic.

Nor does he brook disagreement, even if well founded. In his view, those who disagree with him are little better than traitors. Especially Americans who believe that Senator McCain’s most important duty is to protect this nation.

In fact, he has routinely advocated what amounts to sacrificing U.S. interests while pushing confrontation and sometimes war with a long list of countries around the globe: Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran, North Korea and, worst of all, Russia. There is scarcely a conflict he doesn’t want the United States to plunge into. And rarely a military deployment he does not want to make permanent. Whatever the international issue, he sees U.S. military action as the answer.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 115th; bandow; captainobvious; fakeamerican; first100days; gope; mccain; traitor
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1 posted on 03/25/2017 11:01:12 AM PDT by WilliamIII
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To: WilliamIII

YES!


2 posted on 03/25/2017 11:01:51 AM PDT by notaliberal (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle,)
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To: WilliamIII

Yep, about 25 years ago.


3 posted on 03/25/2017 11:02:01 AM PDT by TMA62 (Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
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To: WilliamIII
Yes!
4 posted on 03/25/2017 11:02:39 AM PDT by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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To: WilliamIII

He never had a prime. He was a disaster as a midshipman, as a pilot and has been a disaster as a Senator.


5 posted on 03/25/2017 11:03:06 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: WilliamIII

YES 20 YEARS PAST HIS PRIME!!!!


6 posted on 03/25/2017 11:03:45 AM PDT by slorunner
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To: WilliamIII

Yes.


7 posted on 03/25/2017 11:03:57 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: WilliamIII

WAY!


8 posted on 03/25/2017 11:05:32 AM PDT by fullchroma
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To: WilliamIII

This is truly the question of our generation. The 1960s generation...


9 posted on 03/25/2017 11:05:47 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Listing all his “accomplishments” shows that John McPain has lived a prime time disaster of a life.


10 posted on 03/25/2017 11:06:26 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: WilliamIII

Arizona seems to think every vote for him is a personal shot at the Viet Cong in the name of all POWs, or something.

Those people wont consider voting for anyone else until that bastard croaks.


11 posted on 03/25/2017 11:10:27 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: WilliamIII

Trashing a POTUS while on foreign soil.... he’s been doing it since the Hanoi Hilton. Benedict Arnold was a war hero too.


12 posted on 03/25/2017 11:11:09 AM PDT by Lexington Green (Sun Tzu Trumps Saul Alinsky)
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To: notaliberal

YES!! Way, WAY beyond!!


13 posted on 03/25/2017 11:11:53 AM PDT by 2harddrive
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To: WilliamIII

John McCain was past his prime the day he graduated from the Naval Academy.


14 posted on 03/25/2017 11:13:59 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (President Donald J. Trump ... Making America Great Again, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: WilliamIII

He started out at bottom of class and went downhill from there.


15 posted on 03/25/2017 11:23:03 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: WilliamIII

30 years ago.


16 posted on 03/25/2017 11:23:25 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: WilliamIII

Is McCain Beyond His Prime?
Is there tea in China?
Of course. He’s been beyond his prime for over 30 years.


17 posted on 03/25/2017 11:30:16 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: WilliamIII

Long beyond.


18 posted on 03/25/2017 11:32:04 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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"Is McCain Beyond His Prime?"

Are you kidding me..? His rotting corpse is stinking all of DC... That schmuck needs to get out of town as soon as possible....

19 posted on 03/25/2017 11:36:14 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: WilliamIII

Has been for decades.


20 posted on 03/25/2017 11:37:04 AM PDT by mulligan
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