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20 Aug 2008 06:16 pm
A Crisis-Based Foreign Policy?
Max Bergmann worries:
The big concern with a McCain presidency – a concern which I am
surprised has not been vocalized more fully – is that the U.S. will
lurch from crisis to crisis, confrontation to confrontation, whether it
be with Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, Saudi Arabia, etc. The danger
is that McCain’s pundit-like rhetoric will entrap the U.S. in
descending spiral of foreign policy brinksmanship. Just think about the
very likely scenario of McCain giving Iran/Russia a rhetorical
ultimatum and Iran/Russia ignoring it. Now we are stuck - either we
lose face by not following through on our threats or we follow through
and go to war. We can’t afford such a reckless approach after the last
eight years. For the next eight we need a president not a pundit.
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