One of the most startling elements of the leaked platform (obtained by Politico) considered by the Republican National Convention this week reflects the received wisdom of John McCain/Lindsey Graham foreign policy wing of the GOP that believes the so-called “Arab Spring” to be a good thing for American interests in the region and the collapse of the Middle East into the arms of the extremist Muslim Brotherhood (McCain was against the Brotherhood before he was for it).
This is best expressed in the “American Exceptionalism” section of the platform, under the topic “The Challenges of the Changing Middle East” (page 14 of the Politico print out), where it states:
We recognize the historic nature of the events of the past two years – the Arab Spring – that have unleashed democratic movements leading to the overthrow of dictators who have been menaces to global security for decades. In a season of upheaval, it is necessary to be prepared for anything. That is true on the ground in the Middle East, and it will be equally true in the next Administration, particularly with a new President unbound by the failures of the past. We welcome the aspirations of the Arab peoples and others for greater freedom, and we hope that greater liberty – and with it, a greater chance for peace – will result from the recent turmoil. Many governments in the region have given substantial assistance to the U.S. over the last decade because they understood that our struggle against terror is not an ethnic or religious fight, and the violent extremists are abusers of their faith, not its champions.
There are a couple of things to take note of here.
First is statement that the “Arab Spring” has “unleashed democratic movements leading to the overthrow of dictators who have been menaces to global security for decades” (HT: Marc Lynch).
It’s unclear exactly who the RNC is talking about. Might that be our long-time U.S. ally in Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, who despite his brutal grasp and dictatorial powers was a committed partner to keeping Egypt’s end of the Camp David Accords that maintained the peace with Israel? And then was replaced by Muslim Brotherhood president Mohamed Morsi that has embraced Hamas in Gaza and called for the US to release the “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel Rahman, as he crushes dissent to his consolidation of power? We also see in recent days the ill omen of an increased militarization of the Sinai, with Egyptian tanks moving towards the border with Israel and the movement of terrorists groups out of Gaza through Egypt to attack Israel.
Or does the RNC platform committee mean Tunisia, where another Muslim Brotherhood-dominated government has replaced dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. While Ben Ali abused the freedom of the press, he also established one of the most Western-friendly Arab states, complete with legalized abortion and prostitution.
But under the new government led by the Muslim Brotherhood Ennahda Party, even Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki openly complained on Friday about the rapid consolidation of power by the Islamists in administrative and political institutions.
Meanwhile, women in Tunisia are protesting the rollback of women’s rights under the new government, and the media is protesting increased abuses, such as the arrest of a blogger for drinking during Ramadan and the arrest warrant issued by the government last week for the head of a TV station for a satire piece that aired recently, and journalists protested last Wednesday about the tightening press restrictions on Tunisian media. Sounds like things are even worse than they were under former dictator Ben Ali.
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney just a few weeks ago told an Israeli paper that the “Arab Spring” didn’t have to happen in Egypt and Tunisia if Obama had not derailed Bush’s “freedom agenda”, saying:
President [George W.] Bush urged [deposed Egyptian President] Hosni Mubarak to move toward a more democratic posture, but President Obama abandoned the freedom agenda and we are seeing today a whirlwind of tumult in the Middle East in part because these nations did not embrace the reforms that could have changed the course of their history, in a more peaceful manner
Apparently, the RNC platform committee didn’t get Romney’s memo.
I suspect what they really had in mind is the overthrow and death of Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi last year.
Undeniably, Gaddafi had given shelter to international terrorists and pursued a program to obtain weapons of mass destruction. He had also killed Americans in the Berlin disco bombing and the downing of Pan Am 103. But following the 9/11 attacks, Gaddafi had entered into an agreement with the U.S. to dismantle his WMD program and for actively cooperated with U.S anti-terrorism efforts.
[N.B. - John McCain pushed for military aid for Gaddafi just two years before he was congratulating Obama on Gaddafi's death, in fact saying we should have involved more military effort to aid Islamist rebels in Gaddafi's overthrow.]
Yes, Gaddafi had everything coming that he received, but what has replaced him is far short of the “Arab Spring” and democratic movement celebrated by the RNC platform.
Just last month the departing National Transitional Council said that any new constitution should be subordinated to Islamic law – and that the imposition of sharia in Libya should not be subject to a popular referendum (how’s that for democratic?). Such positions have emboldened Islamist forces, who this weekend bulldozed a historic mausoleum in Tripoli with a government unwilling or unable to stop them.
And who is leading these “democratic movements” celebrated by the RNC? One prominent figure is Abdelhakim Belhadj, a longtime leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (which is still listed by the State Department as a terrorist organization), who recently left his military post to take up politics. Belhadj, who was captured by the CIA in 2004 in Thailand and renditioned back to Libya, has started his own political party. So an Al-Qaeda-linked terrorist commander could play a leading role in Libya’s political future. And we overthrew Gaddafi (as much as he deserved it) for this? Meanwhile, Libyan arms are now fueling Islamist insurgents and terrorist groups across Africa.
But not content with the current catastrophe of the “Arab Spring”, the RNC Platform Committee would like to see this foreign policy failure extended to Syria, as they state:
We support the transition to a post-Assad Syrian government that is representative of its people, protects the rights of all minorities and religions, respects the territorial integrity of its neighbors, and contributes to peace and stability in the region.
That sentiment is admirable, but in reality it is pure fantasy.
A post-Assad government would undoubtedly be dominated by the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, which controls the rebel Syrian National Council (as I reported several weeks ago, is led by one of the Pentagon’s former top Islamic advisers) and has historically been one of the most violent Muslim Brotherhood affiliates in the world. Such a government might be an elected one, but it’s unlikely to protect the rights of all minorities and religions, respect the territorial integrity of its neighbors, or contribute to peace and stability in the region.
In fact, as reported by the Daily Beast on Friday, the Syrian rebels are already talking about installing a sharia-governed Islamic state while they already targeting Alawites, Christians and Shia. The instability of Syria has already prompted concerns by Russia of increase of Islamic extremism within its own borders, such as the terror attacks just 500 miles from Moscow reported on yesterday by the New York Times . Those concerns and the prospect of a hardline Sunni state on its borders presumably will draw Russia deeper into the Syrian conflict, destabilizing the region even further.
There are other troubling elements of this section of the RNC platform, such as the promotion of the Obama administration’s non-sensical “violent extremism” narrative. I’ll leave that for others to comment on.
Reading the rest of the “American Exceptionalism” there is much to commend. However, in light of the present situation in the Middle East and perhaps one of the greatest foreign policy disasters in America history, the RNC’s approach to the “Arab Spring” seems to be not just a continuation of the Obama administration’s perpetual blundering and appeasement and the GOP McCain/Graham wing’s two-faced, schizophrenic “he loves me/he loves me not” policy, but an escalation of the insanity.
No doubt my detractors will paint my criticism as some kind of love fest for Middle East dictatorships, but in point in fact, up until now that’s all we’ve ever had to deal with. There is no democratic and human rights tradition in the Middle East (save the exception of Israel – the one outpost of Western-style democracy the rest of the region wants to see destroyed), and the “democratic movements” we have supported have required the abandonment of our allies in the region. In their place we have supported the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, which openly states its objective to create Islamic states governed by authoritarian Islamic law, the reestablishment of a global Islamic caliphate, and pushing Western interests out of the region entirely.
Yes, the situation is complicated and the actors we have to work with range from very bad to even worse, but the experience of the US with Iran in 1979 warns against doubling-down on the failures of the Obama administration.
And as we see Iraq swing further into Iran’s orbit, and the complete collapse of our efforts in Afghanistan (in both cases, countries subordinated to Islamic law, not due to Al-Qaeda, but due to constitutions written by the US State Department during the Bush administration’s “freedom agenda” hailed by Romney), the US cannot continue to chase the mirage of the “Arab Spring” as envisioned by McCain/Graham and pursuing the utterly insane policy of aiding and abetting our sworn enemies in the rest of the takeover of the Middle East to the short and long-term detriment to our national interests.
In their approach to the Middle East, let’s hope that someone in the Romney/Ryan camp has better wisdom than the RNC platform committee. Or at least reads a newspaper.
that all this nonsensical crap is in the Republican platform.
his trip to Israel and his good words there could both be lies.
Boehner and McCain jumped all over Michelle Bachmann’s inquiry into Muslim Brotherhood connected Huma Abedin’s security clearance, or lack of it, as Sec’y of State Clinton’s Chief Deputy Assistant.
IF the Repubs truly believe this, then they are two sheets to the wind.
I have spent an inordinate amount of time proving exactly how dangerous the ‘Arab Spring’ has been, both for Israel and for the west.
In fact, go to – http://www.adina kutnicki.com and read my MANY commentaries on this issue.
Will try and link a few – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/08/22/will-a-confluence-of-known-terrorists-jumping-to-huma-abedins-defense-hillary-clintons-deputy-chief-of-staff-hit-critical-mass-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
(make sure to click on all the embedded link commentaries too)
http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/08/21/repeat-until-the-cows-come-home-there-is-no-moderate-islam-period-addendum-to-what-the-west-in-general-and-its-leaders-in-particular-know-about-islam-can-fill-less-than-a-thimble-m/
http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/08/21/repeat-until-the-cows-come-home-there-is-no-moderate-islam-period-addendum-to-what-the-west-in-general-and-its-leaders-in-particular-know-about-islam-can-fill-less-than-a-thimble-m/
and so on…..
So there’s no tradition of democracy in the middle east; you have to start somewhere. The good thing about democracy, whether we like it or not, is that these people can no longer radicalize themselves based on the premise the West is supporting dictators that hold them down.
Only one man, Saddam Hussein, single handedly warred with Iran, threatening the stability of the region, invaded Kuwait doing that again, American troops were sent to Saudi Arabia, and 9/11 happened. So these democracies are having rough beginnings – so what? So did we.
What are you going to advocate for instead – a return to dictators? Who? There are no compelling charismatic figures left. Syria is toast. We should support these movements in general terms simply because we have no other choice, no other options.
Wars are a hell of a lot harder to start when a parliament has to decide, or a President with term limits. Like Morsi or not, he is a President and not a dictator; he can be voted out as easily as he was voted in. He’s going to have to give Egypt more than Israel-hate if he wants to get re-elected.
People who have a say in their own future are going to tend to internalize their frustrations and if these Islamists want to wreck their own countries, let ‘em. They won’t be able to concoct scenarios about American imperialism.
Let Islam hold sway; it’ll either work for them or it won’t. If it does they’ll be happy – if not they’ll kick ‘em out. Iran is not a template but an anomaly – I wish people would stop using it. Lebanon has it’s own very specific demo and therefore problems. We’ll deal with the problems as they arise, at least secure in the knowledge we can point the fingers at them for a change and say, “What the hell do you want us to do? Kick ‘em out.”
So, to Syria I say, kick ‘em out. It’s not like tens of thousands of Americans haven’t been slaughtered in chasing our own vision of how to live. Welcome to freedom – freedom is blood.
“So there’s no tradition of democracy in the middle east; you have to start somewhere. The good thing about democracy, whether we like it or not, is that these people can no longer radicalize themselves based on the premise the West is supporting dictators that hold them down.”
The naivate contained in this statement alone boggles the mind, not to mention the complete overlooking of history and current events. You are confusing propoganda uttered by liberal elites and their radical islamic bed fellows with the fact that islam is radicalizing. Futhermore, it does not much matter why they radicalize themselves if their ends are the same, which is to spread islam and destroy the west. No democracy will hold in any islamic state. It only lasts as a flashpoint for the hardcore islamists to take brutal control of those same states. The only thing that keeps islamists in check is the brute force of a strongman ruler – and for our best interest, a pro American strongman.
As to the rest of your post, a conglomeration of fantasy and wishfull thinking.
Fantasies are not real, and wishes are best kept to one self after blowing out birthday candles…
Elections have taken place; you don’t like them. What does that have to do with me? Should we do a Chile on them? That’ll work out real well.
Why nothing at all, those elections, nothing to do with you at all, you idiot . . .
Why am I an idiot?
Steven Johnson explained very clearly and concisely in his response to your initial post just why you are “an idiot”, Fail. I’m not sure that he can help you to understand why that is true; perhaps if you check the sources of your assumptions, you will find a clue. Or not.
I’ve been hearing these authoritative predictions of Egypt as the next Iran since Feb. 2011. And what happened? Elections. According to the conspiracy brain trust, that is all according to plan. I was in Tahrir Square the night Mubarak stepped down. Where were you Mr. Non-Idiot?
Muslims are Muslims and they’re acting like Muslims who want Islamic values. Dah-dah! A massive surprise. Sun’s in the sky and water is wet.
Read that first statement of Burton’s again very slowly…..phrase by phrase….It’s literally true.
“So there’s no tradition of democracy in the middle east; ….[ cannot dispute this]………you have to start somewhere ……[cannot dispute this....]….The good thing about democracy, whether we like it or not, is that …..these people …….can no longer radicalize themselves….. based on the premise …….the West is supporting dictators that hold them down.”….[can't dispute that....they've made their bed, now they're on their own now.....]
The slower one reads that well constructed sentence…..the more sense it makes.
I think the platform was developed along the following lines:
GOP Establishment: Man, we’ve taken it on the chin with the Bush/Hitler mantra from the Democrats. We need to reaffirm our democratic bona fides. Let’s get our elder statesmen McCain and Graham on it…
McCain: We need to commit to democracies!
Graham: Yeah, but we can’t overlook republics!!
McCain: And we must stress that we’re for the people!!!
Graham: You mean like “Peoples Republics”?
McCain: Exactly… what could be better than a “Democratic Peoples Republic”?
Graham: Hey, you’re on to something there… that’s the ultimate expression of “The People”.
GOP Establishment: So you guys are saying we should honor “The Democratic Peoples Republic of North Korea”?
McCain/Graham: Uhm, let’s just shorten it to “Arab Spring”. It’s all the same and it won’t roil the proles.
Democracy is only a transitional phase of government and never lasts very long. There are only two stable forms of government: Republic and Dictatorship (of which there are many flavors). The Arab Spring is Dictatorship/Democracy/Worse form of Dictatorship. They have replaced relatively benign dictators for brutal new ones. By the same token, the US is Republic/Democracy/?. The US ceased to be a Republic between FDR and LBJ when the government got into the welfare state business of plundering Paul to buy votes from Peter. The question is if we can buck history and restore the Republic or collapse into Dictatorship ourselves.
I have to say, when I say the article headline on the Home Page, I thought there was a misprint – that they wrote RNC when they meant DNC, or that they wrote “celebrates” rather than the intended “criticizes”. For my part, I’ve been an Independent most of my life, not a partisan, as well as a close observer of international politics. So I never bought into the “Arab Spring” nonsense. But after the reality check the world has witnessed over the past year and a half, I thought more folks had wised up. Silly me. Seems the RNC too has its share of fools.
and they are many, for sure. But fools didn’t put that crap — as @1 aptly calls it — into the platform.
Clearly the Republican Party has a share of Muslim Brotherhood operatives, Grover Norquist, for one.
We should be aware of what our own Dear Leader is cooking up. Not so great from a “democratic governance” prospective. Take a look at this collection of “special powers” he has allocated to himself in the event he decides to declare a “national emergency.” Perhaps he has already decided he is going to “win” this election come what may.
There have been over 900 Executive Orders put forth from Obama, and he is not even through his first term yet. He is creating a martial law ‘Disney Land’ of control covering everything imaginable. Some of the executive orders he has signed recently have been exposed thanks to ‘Friends of Conservative Action Alerts.’ They have compiled a choice list of ‘Emergency Powers, Martial law executive orders’: Get your headache medication out while you still can without a prescription…
* Executive Order 10990 allows the Government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports.
* Executive Order 10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media.
* Executive Order 10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels, and minerals.
* Executive Order 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision.
* Executive Order 11001 allows the government to take over all health education and welfare functions.
* Executive Order 11002 designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons.
* Executive Order 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.
* Executive Order 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate and establish new locations for populations.
* Executive Order 11005 allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways, and public storage facilities.
* Executive Order 11049 assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issues over a fifteen-year period.
* Executive Order 11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis.
* Executive Order 11310 grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute Industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President.
* Executive Order 11921 allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit, and the flow of money in U.S. financial institutions in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when the president declares a state of emergency, Congress cannot review the action for six months.
It is more than clear that Obama is planning for the total control and takeover of America via Martial Law. Food, energy, transportation, work, banking, and health… he has it covered.
While Obama is busy pulling executive orders out of the sky to control everything inside our country, he has also been issuing executive orders to force us to submit to international regulations instead of our Constitution.
and in obama’s hands, those powers are fatal to our country
a lot of people will have to roll over to let him have them, though
those people are the real problem, and they could be half the population, which is scary
if push comes to shove, will the other half actually prevent him
“Executive Order 10990 allows the Government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports.”
No it doesn’t. If you go to the actual Federal Register at http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/1962.html, you’ll find that Executive Order 10990 was signed in 1962 by President Kennedy and re-established the Federal Safety Council. It has nothing to do with taking control of highways and seaways.
Given that your first assertion is such nonsense, I’m not even going to bother with the rest except to say that I noticed the whole list you provided appears at this website, which was the second one that came up in my Google search: http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/fema_executive_orders.htm. That site has nothing in the way of evidence, such as citations, at all.
Sounds like you’ve been taken in by some kind of conspiracy theory.
My general comment is that Winston Churchill did not save Britain, he kept Hitler from winning and gave the West an opportunity to avoid Communist domination in Western Europe till that system collapsed of its internal contradictions. But he did not save *his* Britain. It was lost, destroyed by the war and the desires of its people to lead easy lives. Margaret Thatcher briefly stemmed the tide, but that appears now as little more than a brief hurrah, a “shining moment of glory”. The England of old is probably gone forever.
The West is going the same path, including America. In the end, the Western victors of World War II probably only delayed the final victory of some kind of Leviathan by some three to five generations–they did not triumph over it for all time. As far as the course of human history, I feel they might have fought in vain, because their posterity does not appear as if it will not fight when the fighting was easy, when it did not even require physical fighting, just resolute opposition.
Of course, that is how England got into World War II to start with, isn’t it?
If the question is “can a modern prosperous democracy long survive against efforts by others, within and without, to have more authoritarian order?”, my answer would be “only if they keep getting opponents who make mistakes, and only at a cost in blood.” England should have lost World War II, if Germany had not been ruled by a mad-man who declared war on every nation he could think of. Against a more restrained foe, England loses.
As they are right now, the Muslim nations do not have the economies or technical sophistication to pose a threat more than they do. Which is good, because we are barely able to muster the will to contain the threat as it is now. If they get someone who can patiently and wisely play the great games, two or three generations hence we will have a threat I do not see this current flaccid version of the West–a West that makes 1935 Western Europe of Britain and France look like the Mongol barbarian hordes constantly thirsting for conflict–well, I do not see this West being able to handle to that “boiling frog” threat.
They believe in themselves. We do not. They wish to be Alpha. We wish everyone in the West to be Beta. I think we will find both sides have a good shot at more or less getting their desires.
wishes everyone in the West to be Beta
They believe in themselves.
No, they don’t. Islam is antithetical to individualism, thus they cannot believe in “themselves”. Islam advocates a totalitarian thug state that only differs from the former Soviet Union, China, North Korea and Venezuela at the margins. Muslims cannot be the “alpha” dogs because their entire society is “beta”. They’re a perfect complement to the modern liberal because their society is driven by heredity, the peons know their place, and every aspect of daily life is fully and completely scripted. Can there be any doubt that Mayor Bloomberg is a Muslim in every detail except the minutia of specific religious practices?
Their society is incredibly weak, the governmental control is tissue thin, and they have nothing going for them except the expectation that those in the West who despise freedom, who hate liberty, and who loathe economic prosperity will ultimately surrender. But if that happens it won’t make Muslims the “alpha” dogs, it will just create a bigger pack of “betas” with worldwide abject poverty as the result.
much as individuals, but they do believe in themselves as the umma islam, a violent mob
Region 4 of the WTO being formed is historic. It is a historic pagan blood bath to bring the world system one step closer to birthing a global Tower of Babel. RINOS are globalists, not nationalists.
What is in store for region one? Will those who support Israel’s enemies be given more over the top weather, earthquakes, and social unrest?
John McCain is one of the most dangerous Trojan Horse of the Saudi/Qatar- royals – his and his family’s bank account should be investigated. Loyalty to fine US military especially the brave ones who fought for true justice in WW2 against the German Nazis, does not mean loyalty to rogue military like McCain! How can McCain support the Saudi/Qatar-royals sponsored Muslim Brotherhood Trojan horse Obama and Abedin! And also supports the Saudi/Qatar royals-sponsored Muslim Brotherhood-led Arabic Nazi-Hitlerian GENOCIDE of non-Arab Muslim/non-Muslim minorities in OIL/MINERAL/LAND-RICH Africa (Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Kenya, Algeria, Morocco,Tunisia) and Mid-East (Egypt, Iraq and now, Syria – next will be Lebanon!). And later on, their ultimate goal of another Jewish Holocaust – Israel/the Jews!
Because it pays better, that’s how.
The question is, where do Romney and Ryan stand on all the hard points you’ve raised?
The answer to that is now the main issue for the convention to decide and declare.
The matter may be glossed over and not even be raised at all, and that’s the trouble.
It’s the economy, stupid!
The RNC is not going to start a shouting match with Obama over the pros and cons of the Arab spring.
We should care more about how Putin’s nuclear sub sneaked up on us in our backyard, and ask if that is the “more flexibility” that Obama was talking about.
“We should care more about how Putin’s sub sneaked up on us in our back yard . . .”
ExactIy! I couldn’t agree with you more. Please note, however, that that’s not the economy.
So, once again, two retired military officers show us that the worhip of all things military is just plain stupid. Arizona and South Carolina only send these liars and fools back every six years because they were in the Armed Forces. Graham was a scummy lawyer, and McCain almost sank his own ship before he was captured. If they were knives, they couldn’t cut butter!
Some military people are indeed brave, courageous protectors of our country and values. The vast majority are government clerks with uniforms.
Stop voting for them, just because they’re soldiers. This Petraeus worship is sickening to behold. Didn’t we learn our lesson with Powell?
These two fools come from what should be bright red states. Instead, they self-servingly cripple us, as a party, at every single opportunity.
but there are exceptions, Allen West, for example.
maybe that’s why he hasn’t been asked to speak at the convention.
If America has a national hero right now it is certainly Allen West!
John J – I invite you to study the military career of John McCain. I agree 100% that Graham is a slimeball, and also that McCain is rapidly approaching senility and he has also disappointed me greatly in recent years. However, your characterization of his military service is both incorrect and insulting.
The FACTS are as follows: John McCain comes from a U.S. Navy family and he is the third generation to wear the uniform. His father was an admiral in WWII and served along side Admirals Halsey and Mitscher driving the Japanese back across the Pacific. On that awful day in 1967 (July 29th) he was sitting in his airplane getting ready to take off when a missile from another airplane – NOT HIS AIRPLANE – deployed, detonated and started the conflagration that killed 134 sailors and burned and maimed many more. John McCain did not “almost sink his own ship”. Further, when he was shot down by a SAM, the NVA were waiting for him when he landed in a pond in the middle of the city; he had absolutely ZERO chance to escape as he was also badly injured in the ejection process. McCain’s behavior while a POW has been characterized by all who were there with him as nothing less than honorable. Actually, besides being TORTURED REPEATEDLY by his captors, resulting in permanent disfigurement and disability, John McCain was offered the opportunity to be paroled early in his captivity by the NVA actually because he was the son of an admiral – he refused to leave unless EVERY OTHER PRISONER OF LOWER RANK WAS ALSO RELEASED. John McCain remained a POW for another SIX YEARS.
I agree with you about his politics and he really pissed me off when he attacked Michelle Bachmann, but lay off his military service because there is only one sentence ever uttered by our mooslim loving president that I actually agree with – “John McCain is a goddamned war hero”. I agree that he has outlived his usefulness in the senate and he needs to retire, but his service during the Vietnam War is absolutely worthy of our praise, our respect, and our thanks.
Re:
“…and McCain almost sank his own ship before he was captured.”
Really?……what ship? …..how’d that happen?
This isn’t sarcasm, I’d like to know.
God, it pains me so to have to say these things, but….Lindsey is a punk, low-life, scumball, self-serving trial lawyer – nuff said. John McCain, while I will always admire your conduct as a POW, and I am eternally grateful to you for your service to our nation in her hour of need, I humbly implore you to give it up while you still have even a modicum of respect left with the American people. You are approaching senility and your assault on Rep. Bachmann for shedding light on the mooslimification of our government was the last straw.
Your support of the ‘ARAB SPRING’ movement is proof that you have been deceived by the islamists and are therefore unfit for future service; every politician that believes the arab spring is a peaceful movement towards democracy and not the intentional subjugation of the Middle East and targeting the rest of the world is a fool and unfit for office.
You’ve served your country well, Senator. Now, it is time for you to go home….and take your stupid ass daughter with you, please.
John McCain (Don Quixote) and Lindsey Graham (Sancho Panza), the stars of the Republican Ruling Class version of the Spanish classic, are the RINO version of hepatitis: the gift that keeps on giving!
Well put.
It is really painful to watch McCain’s disintegration. He has stayed too long at the Fair.
If we (Republicans) don’t eliminate these acquired faux publicized divisions in our Party, based upon ego, such as that silly, thoughtless quote on abortion…. and show real unity while letting the dissenters grind their teeth in the background, we’re going to hand this election to that chameleon Obama on a red platter.
This election is going to be a near thing. Remember the intelligence level of those 52% who ensconced chameleon Obama in the Oval Office in the first place…How have they changed?..really? …these public disagreements of Republicans are fodder gleefully awaited by the Democrats.
Don’t hand this thing to them by default.
That’s “Democracy”, also.
Uhhh, all these things have already happened under Obama, so I reckon you Liberals support the platform too ?
In case you haven’t seen Andy McCarthy’s latest piece at NRO
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/314949/understanding-muslim-brotherhood-andrew-c-mccarthy
The GOP Establishment are clueless, they spend their efforts trying to marginalize those few speaking out.
I would consider the source, Politico, and decide from there if you believe one word of this report.