John McCain, cranky, warmongering madman, again: Why does the New York Times print these lunatic rav
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McCain said many stunning things during his visit to Kiev just before the weekend, and then in an astonishing piece of Manichean logic timed to coincide with the Kiev grandstand Saturday when it appeared on the New York Times opinion page (under the headline “Obama has made America look weak”). We can be but grateful that the 2008 presidential candidate chose Sarah Palin as first mate in that campaign, so sinking his destroyer before it reached port.
This guy is dangerous, residing back there in the Evil Empire cosmos. He sees Ukraine on the very eve of a Russian invasion. (Never mind that no serious analyst of any stripe counts this Vladimir Putin’s intent.) As to Putin, “His world is a brutish, cynical place, where power is worshiped, weakness is despised, and all rivalries are zero-sum…. We must rearm ourselves morally and intellectually to prevent the darkness of Mr. Putin’s world from befalling more of humanity.” (Could John Foster Dulles or Cotton Mather match this for the evangelical flourish, this depiction of the Beelzebub in our midst?)
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McCain remains a student in the school of military primacy, as his career in the Senate attests. Samantha Power, Obama’s ambassador at the U.N.; Victoria Nuland, the assistant secretary of state for European affairs, and others in the backfield of President Obama’s offense favor the economic and political means that came into favor after the Berlin Wall fell and history had supposedly ended in neoliberal triumph.
Nuland has been clear on the point in her speeches, including this one, in which she describes State’s campaign since Ukraine’s independence in 1991 to yank it westward in alliance with prominent American multinational corporations.
http://www.salon.com/2014/03/17/john_mccain_cranky_warmongering_madman_again_why_does_the_new_york_times_print_these_lunatic_ravings/
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