McCain Is A Danger To Us All

You like how Bush has screwed up everything and left us in such a dangerous position? Well, then you'd love McCain.

Andrew Sullivan:

After the last eight years, we simply cannot risk a continuation of the same reckless, belligerent, argument-losing, ideological and deceptive foreign policy of the current crew. The damage that neoconservatism has done to America, to the Middle East, to democratic norms, to Israel's security, to civilized values and fiscal sanity is immense and deep. From his knee-jerk COld War posture over Georgia to his Rovian campaign tactics, McCain is simply too close to this disastrous record to contemplate. McCain's trigger-happy temperament, shallow understanding of the complexities and passion for military force as the answer to everything is the bigger risk. He is a recipe for more, wider and far more destructive warfare.

Josh Marshall:

Andrew Sullivan is right about this. This is something that transcends whatever immediate campaign tactics or even strategy Barack Obama may be pursuing. It goes beyond him. It goes beyond the Democrats. The whole country needs to wake up.

The foreign policy of the last seven-plus years has been an unmitigated disaster for the United States by virtually every measure. And John McCain would ramp up all the worst traits of the current administration. His instincts are always toward force and the people advising him come squarely from the Cheney wing of the current administration. In comparison to Bush he's not just more of the same. There's every reason to believe he'd be much worse.

The current situation in Georgia and his response should make clear to everyone how dangerous a president John McCain would be.

I know we spend a lot of time making fun of McCain for being a crazy old coot. But if this last week has taught us anything, it is the "crazy" that should worry us a lot more than the "old coot" part.

If McCain is elected president, he would most likely steer us towards another world war. Seriously. War with Iran, another Cold War with Russia (at best), increased belligerence against China. Pat Buchanan has said that John McCain makes Dick Cheney look like Gandhi.

This is why we must win this election. McCain is even scarier than Bush, if you can believe it, and cannot be given control over our foreign policy.