Those who forget history...
Dec. 8th, 2006 08:59 amMcCain also expressed problems with the notion of sitting down with Iran and Syria, saying, "I don't believe that a peace conference with people who are dedicated to your extinction has much short-term gain."Yeah, like we never did that before. Ever. It never had any gain at all. We never once talked to the Soviets at all between 1946 and 1989. Never, ever, ever. Because doing so was assumed by everyone to be fruitless.
I mean, is McCain pulling out all the stops and becoming just a demagogic mouthpiece, or what? Matt Welch believes he is:
Sifting through McCain's four bestselling books and nearly three decades of work on Capitol Hill, a distinct approach toward governance begins to emerge. McCain, it turns out, wants to restore your faith in the U.S. government by any means necessary, even if that requires thousands of more military deaths, national service for civilians and federal micromanaging of innumerable private transactions. He'll kick down the doors of boardroom and bedroom, mixing Democrats' nanny-state regulations with the GOP's red-meat paternalism in a dangerous brew of government activism.
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