McCain knocks Trump's isolationism, warns against 'old ties of blood, and race, and sectarianism' [View all]

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory



ELIZABETH PREZA
17 FEB 2017 AT 13:10 ET

In a speech on Friday at the Munch Security Conference, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) delivered an impassioned defense of the West and warned against an “increasing turn away from universal values and toward old ties of blood, and race, and sectarianism.”

Speaking at the conference—an annual event on international security that was founded in 1963—McCain said while in the past the question of whether the West “will survive” would have invited “accusations of hyperbole and alarmism.”

“Not this year,” Mccain said. “If ever there were a time to treat this question with a deadly seriousness, it is now.”

McCain said the founders of the conference would be alarmed “by the hardening resentment we see toward immigrants, and refugees, and minority groups, especially Muslims,” and “by the growing inability, and even unwillingness, to separate truth from lie.”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/mccain-knocks-trumps-isolationism-warns-against-old-ties-of-blood-and-race-and-sectarianism/