John McCain Just Doesn't Get It
by James Glaser
January 8, 2008

I watched Senator John McCain on Meet the Press with Tim Russert, on Sunday, and the man scares the heck out of me. I really hope and pray that Senator McCain never gets close to being President of the United States.

McCain sees nothing wrong with our troops staying in Iraq as long as 100 years. He actually said that! McCain's foreign policy depends on keeping American troops all around the globe forever. The Senator believes the American people don't care if our troops are overseas, as long as they are not being killed. He made no mention of the cost of keeping close to a half million troops in foreign lands, (that is what we are doing today) nor did he seem to have any idea of how people in these foreign countries feel about having our troops on their soil.

Think how you would feel if there was a detachment of Russian or Chinese troops living down the road from your house. Think about all the crime that comes with every American military base in foreign countries. Every military base has their own "red light district," with the bars and whore houses that service the troops. You doubt that? Ask any veteran.

McCain feels it is fine that we still have troops in Germany and Japan, 60 years after WWII. How many trillion dollars has that cost us over the decades?

John McCain wants to continue our "military" foreign policy. He thinks it works. He promises to get Osama bin laden. When Russert asked how he would do that, he started to mumble about getting special operations people into the tribal areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, where he said they would have to "blend in." The Senator was bullshiting, trying to blow off an answer that sounded good, but was vague at best.

McCain has been in Washington for decades. He is owned, lock, stock, and barrel, by the corporations who have supported him over the years, and he is going to do his best to pay them back. They want America to continue spending every penny we possibly can on defense, so they can rake in the profits.

If you want to continue with America's current foreign policy of almost constant warfare, then John McCain is your man.

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