Senility and politics are a pathetic mix. There is no better example of this than Republican presidential hopeful Senator John McCain. In a recent campaign speech, billed as a major foreign policy statement, McCain seemed to think that he was breaking news when he declared: “Russia and the United States are no longer mortal enemies!” After half a dozen interruptions by hecklers opposed to the Iraq war, he was finally allowed to expound on this new pearl of wisdom. “As our two countries possess the overwhelming majority of the world’s nuclear weapons, we have a special responsibility to reduce their number. I believe we should reduce our nuclear forces to the lowest level we judge necessary, and we should be prepared to enter into a new arms control agreement with Russia reflecting the nuclear reductions I will seek.”
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Such noble sentiments, about a decade past due, are still shocking coming from this heretofore clueless old man. During an April 2006 interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, this same John McCain forcefully suggested that the United States “Should respond harshly to Russia’s anti-democratic actions.” Again, in the June 4, 2007 issue of Business Week, McCain was asked directly : what about Russia—friend or foe? His answer : “ Russia is probably the greatest disappointment in recent years. It has turned into a KGB oligarchy. Putin wants to restore the days of the Old Russian Empire, and he continues to repress democracy, human rights, and freedom of the press. Mysterious assassinations are even taking place. If oil were still $10 a barrel, Mr. Putin would not pose any kind of a threat. I do not believe you will see a reigniting of the Cold War. But I do believe that Putin and his cadre of KGB friends are causing us great difficulties in a variety of ways, including a failure to assist us in trying to rein in Iranian nuclear ambitions.”
And yet again, writing in the November/December issue of Foreign Affairs, McCain was harsher still. “We need a new Western approach to this revanchist Russia. We should start by ensuring that the G-8, the group of eight highly industrialized states, becomes again a club of leading market democracies: it should include Brazil and India but exclude Russia.”
An amyloid-soaked brain is the best-case excuse for such hypocritical hyperbola. Setting truth and myriad self-contradictions aside for the moment, how can anyone with a quorum of working neurons think that they can kick Moscow in the teeth again and again, even threaten to boot Russia from the G-8, and still be a credible partner in any discussion about nuclear disarmament?
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