Look at Yemenis protesting and threatening violent acts
on the US embassy in that country.
Months ago, they were calling for help from the US to
bring down their government. John McCain seems quite on this one, but he sure
will speak out condemning the Obama administration for lack of leadership the
moment these same people turn around and cry for help from the US against their
leaders.
The US "liberated" Libya, only to be met with
hostility of its highest degree – four of its citizens, including its
ambassador to that country, killed in a single day. They supported the ousting
of Mubarak, their great Middle Eastern ally, only to strengthen the forces that
work against them in Egypt.
Visibly uncomfortable, we watched President Obama admit
on Tuesday that presently, Egypt is neither an ally nor a foe of the United
States.
Of course, the freedom of the Egyptian, Libyan or any
other people triumphs friendship of any kind between governments, but isn’t it
possible to achieve both when things are done more cautiously?
Yet, John McCain is crying everyday for more US troops to
be deployed to the Middle East and elsewhere without careful planning and
consideration of the consequences.
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates famously told a group
of West Point cadets: “any future defense secretary
who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or
into the Middle East or Africa should ‘have his head examined,’ as General
MacArthur so delicately put it.”
Any deliberation by the Obama administration regarding
war is seen as a weakness by McCain. That old man only seems to care about wars;
not their consequences. If that doesn’t sound irresponsible to you, I don’t
know what would.
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