Senator McCain may be a war hero. He may have even been a good senator once. But these last 3 years, it seems he has lost his way. He no longer adheres to conservative values, and he makes less sense every day.
Yesterday he blasted the GOP candidates by calling them "isolationists", simply because they no longer see any value in the many military actions we are involved in. They beleive that our military should not be engaged in any action unless it is in defense of our country or our country's best interests. If the action costs a billion a day, and our nation gets no value from it, then we have wasted our money and efforts at a time when we can ill afford to do so. What have we gotten from 90 days of spending billions bombing Libya? And Ghaddafi still in power? How does that benefit us?
While I do agree that it is wrong for other nations to involve themselves in genocide or slaughter, the United states is not the Police Force of the Earth. We do not have that much money, military or power to be everywhere. Nor do we have any right to interfere in the internal affairs of other sovereign nations, whether they are right or wrong. By stretching ourselves as thin as we are, in four theaters, we will be unable to defend ourselves and protect our own interests if a real crisis arrives at our doorstep. These wars have weakened us considerably. Our troops are tired, our treasury is bare.
Mr. McCain, it is NOT "isolationism" to stay out of the affairs of other sovereign nations, no matter how bad they are. If that were the case, we should have been in Iran years ago. And Rwanda. And Somalia. And a dozen other places. Isolationism means not being involved in any world affairs - political, social, and/or military. So, senator, you are not only wrong in your assessment, you apparently are beginning to use "spin".
It does not become you. It's time to walk off in the sunset, sir, and retire gracefully.
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