Wrong Way McCain Posted by Patrick Barry

I would challenge McCain to come up with a Wikipedia entry to explain his way around this glaring policy absence.  Thanks to Hanna Lundqvist for point this out:

John McCain is out in the cold yet again. Prominent national security minds agree that U.S. foreign policy implementation has been co-opted by the Pentagon with disastrous results and that it’s time to re-empower our State Department. Despite support for this initiative from both parties and both departments, John McCain disagrees, and has no plan to increase national service outside of the military.

New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof, a progressive and outspoken critic of the Bush administration, has an op-ed today on the dramatic imbalance between funding for the Defense Department versus State:

In short, the United States is hugely overinvesting in military tools and underinvesting in diplomatic tools. The result is a lopsided foreign policy that antagonizes the rest of the world and is ineffective in tackling many modern problems. After all, you can’t bomb global warming.

Kristof’s point, which was the subject of a Senate Foreign Relations hearing on July 31st, is supported by both military and diplomatic leaders from the Republican administration. The hearing revealed the bipartisan nature of the need for reform in the administration of foreign policy; this is not an issue for progressives or conservatives alone.

Surprisingly, one of the greatest advocates of increasing the United States’ diplomatic prowess is Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. He has emerged as a champion of increasing funding for the State Department and shifting the burden of diplomatic efforts from the military to the civilian:

“I think that the State Department is the proper place to oversee all of the elements of American foreign policy… [it] does not have the authority, the resources or the power to be able to play the role as the lead agency in American foreign policy, and the Congress has not been willing, decade in and decade out, to give the State Department the kind of resources, people and authority that it needs to play its proper role in American foreign policy.”

The consequences of this failed system have been, and will continue to be, disastrous: the Pentagon’s control over aid operations has led to U.S. foreign aid offers being stymied by distrust of the U.S. military in foreign communities. U.S. efforts to increase economic opportunities, to combat disease and hunger, and to provide mass education can only help in the global war on terror, which breeds in areas of poverty, disease, and despair. A single, streamlined, non-military, well-trained and well-funded U.S. aid apparatus that works harmoniously with other countries (both those receiving aid and those helping to provide it) is sorely needed, both for moral reasons and for our national security.

Despite bipartisan support in Congress and agreement from the State Department and the DOD, once again, John McCain stands alone, on the wrong side of the issue, bound by his single-mindedly militaristic point of view.

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