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A Cut-and-Paste Foreign Policy
by Joe Conason | August 12, 2008
This article was published in the August 18, 2008, edition of The New York Observer.
The discovery that John McCain?s remarks on Georgia were derived from Wikipedia, to put it politely, is disturbing and even depressing?but not surprising. Under the tutelage of the neoconservatives, who revealed their superficial understanding of Iraq both before and after the invasion, he favors bellicose grandstanding over strategic thinking. So why delve deeper than a quick Google search?
Worse still, neither he nor his advisers yet grasp how our misadventure in Mesopotamia has diminished American power and prestige. In fact, the Wikipedia episode?an awful embarrassment that would have devastated the presidential campaign of Barack Obama or any other Democrat?revealed an underlying weakness in Senator McCain?s vaunted grasp of foreign policy.
http://www.observer.com/2008/politic...foreign-policy
by Joe Conason | August 12, 2008
This article was published in the August 18, 2008, edition of The New York Observer.
The discovery that John McCain?s remarks on Georgia were derived from Wikipedia, to put it politely, is disturbing and even depressing?but not surprising. Under the tutelage of the neoconservatives, who revealed their superficial understanding of Iraq both before and after the invasion, he favors bellicose grandstanding over strategic thinking. So why delve deeper than a quick Google search?
Worse still, neither he nor his advisers yet grasp how our misadventure in Mesopotamia has diminished American power and prestige. In fact, the Wikipedia episode?an awful embarrassment that would have devastated the presidential campaign of Barack Obama or any other Democrat?revealed an underlying weakness in Senator McCain?s vaunted grasp of foreign policy.
http://www.observer.com/2008/politic...foreign-policy
