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October 02, 2008

Does John McCain Understand That We Need Allies?
Posted by James Lamond

Yesterday E.U. monitors began patrolling Georgian territory, fulfilling their role as was agreed in the cease-fire agreement.   When Georgia and Russia went to war on August 6, it wasn’t George Bush, Condi Rice, and especially not John McCain who flew to Moscow to make peace.  It was Nicholas Sarkozy, president of France, who brokered the deal.  This is the same France that John McCain called an “aging movie actress in the 1940s who is still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn’t have the face for it,” and said that they were “close to rendering themselves irrelevant.”  Do they still seem irrelevant?

In fact we are pretty lucky that our allies have been able to pick up the ball on this one.  With the invasions in Iraq and Afghanistan dominating the Bush administration’s foreign policy agenda, there have many security challenges that Washington has not addressed.  The E.U. monitoring of Georgia demonstrates the importance of having allies to help manage crises around the world. 

Unfortunately John McCain’s Bush-like rhetoric towards our allies is more likely to destroy alliances than build them.  From thinking that Spain’s Prime Minister was leader of a South American Nation, to his comments about France and Germany in the run up to the war in Iraq, John McCain has continued to treat our key allies with disdain and disrespect. With the myriad of global challenges popping up around the world, is this really the man that America can afford to be president?

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