McCain: Surging Away from Cut and Run

Brian Doherty | January 18, 2007

Our beloved former colleague Matt Welch, now hanging his editorial fedora at the LA Times, digs up some fine examples of John McCain's sensible non-interventionist foreign policy thinking--alas, from decades and conflicts gone by.

Comments

|1.18.07 @ 7:11PM|#

reason needs to auto-post every Matt Welch article. Man I miss him. Great article, too, because it's always good to see how much of a hypocritical pigfucker McCain is.

|1.18.07 @ 7:11PM|#

McCain fans,

What exactly do you like about him?

Signed,
Genuinely Interested

|1.18.07 @ 7:31PM|#

highnumber,

I've been a fan of his for many years (which doesn't necessarily mean I'd vote for him). It stems from a lot of little incidents over the years where I read things he said and had the following reaction: "Man, he's the only politician I've ever heard say that, and I totally agree." Of course, I can't remember what any of those things were now, but none of them were recent.

Of course, I did love when he gave the religious right what-for in the 2000 primaries. I could love him for that alone.

|1.18.07 @ 7:33PM|#

Don't miss the coup de grâce on Matt's personal site.

...Nobody puts 'em out of their misery like Matt Welch.

|1.18.07 @ 9:55PM|#

t stems from a lot of little incidents over the years where I read things he said and had the following reaction: "Man, he's the only politician I've ever heard say that, and I totally agree." Of course, I can't remember what any of those things were now, but none of them were recent.

Hate to break it to you, but chances are he's retracted/contradicted just about all of them by now.

|1.18.07 @ 10:23PM|#

That's why I voted for him in the 2000 primaries - just enough anti-Business As Usual to make me think maybe there was something there.

Wouldn't do it again, though, as should suprise no one on this site.

|1.18.07 @ 11:45PM|#

McCain is a power crazed war mongering elderly fascist.

thoreau|1.19.07 @ 8:30AM|#

I am ashamed to admit that I campaigned for McCain in 2000. I campaigned for him because I thought that he was one of the few that truly meant well. Now I fear him for that very reason, because good intentions can make a person less susceptible to reason, less likely to realize the bad effects of good intentions and adjust accordingly.

As to McCain's about-face on foreign policy, I have long suspected that the 9/11 hijackers flew airplanes into the brains of vast numbers of Americans. Many never fully recovered their mental abilities.

|1.19.07 @ 10:10AM|#

Many never fully recovered their mental abilities.

Starting with the 3000 at ground zero.