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Well, how about that: John McCain has conceded that he was wrong to support the war in Iraq.
That war, McCain now says, "can’t be judged as anything other than a mistake, a very serious one, and I have to accept my share of the blame for it."
My question to McCain would be: which potential war subsequent to that did you not support, because you had learned a lesson from Iraq?
In 2008, every single GOP candidate on the debate stage except Ron Paul had supported the war. Opposing it was not a popular position -- after all, how many people said they liked Ron Paul except for his foreign policy?
But he did it.
And just the other day, Frank Buckley (a law professor at GMU, and who's been a guest on the Tom Woods Show) wrote an article called "Fire Bolton" for The American Spectator.
Why should Bolton be fired?
Here's Buckley:
Ah, Libya. It was supposed to give us a democratic Arab nation, one as firmly committed to human rights as any San Francisco Democrat. The then-Secretary of State was so gung-ho for it that the Washington Post called it “Hillary’s War.”
What it got us instead was blackest chaos....
What a spanner Bolton threw into the works when he mentioned Libya last week. Trump’s goal is to ensure that we’re not threatened by North Korea’s nukes. Kim’s goal is to ensure that he’s not threatened by the United States. To get there, we need to take the example of Libya off the table. By raising the issue Bolton reminded us of twenty years of American foreign policy failures and of how we can’t be trusted.
Which is why, in Trump’s shoes, I’d think of firing Bolton. Or at least of signaling to Kim that Bolton doesn’t speak for us. Trump needs to remind everyone of how he promised realism in our foreign policy....
Now:
I'll bet you can't remember all the Republicans on that 2008 debate stage.
But Ron Paul -- the real maverick, McCain -- will be remembered. Here was the man who dared tell the truth at what he assumed would be the expense of his own popularity.
And who warned of the housing bubble all the way back in 2001, while Republicans like Herman Cain were insisting into September 2008 that only "liberals" were complaining about the economy.
Rick Santorum won the Iowa caucuses in 2012, and he's already forgotten. Nobody thinks: "The ideas of Rick Santorum are still being reckoned with."
But when a neoconservative magazine starts wondering if maybe bellicosity is not serving the United States well, it is being haunted by the benign ghost of Ron Paul.
[/TD]That war, McCain now says, "can’t be judged as anything other than a mistake, a very serious one, and I have to accept my share of the blame for it."
My question to McCain would be: which potential war subsequent to that did you not support, because you had learned a lesson from Iraq?
In 2008, every single GOP candidate on the debate stage except Ron Paul had supported the war. Opposing it was not a popular position -- after all, how many people said they liked Ron Paul except for his foreign policy?
But he did it.
And just the other day, Frank Buckley (a law professor at GMU, and who's been a guest on the Tom Woods Show) wrote an article called "Fire Bolton" for The American Spectator.
Why should Bolton be fired?
Here's Buckley:
Ah, Libya. It was supposed to give us a democratic Arab nation, one as firmly committed to human rights as any San Francisco Democrat. The then-Secretary of State was so gung-ho for it that the Washington Post called it “Hillary’s War.”
What it got us instead was blackest chaos....
What a spanner Bolton threw into the works when he mentioned Libya last week. Trump’s goal is to ensure that we’re not threatened by North Korea’s nukes. Kim’s goal is to ensure that he’s not threatened by the United States. To get there, we need to take the example of Libya off the table. By raising the issue Bolton reminded us of twenty years of American foreign policy failures and of how we can’t be trusted.
Which is why, in Trump’s shoes, I’d think of firing Bolton. Or at least of signaling to Kim that Bolton doesn’t speak for us. Trump needs to remind everyone of how he promised realism in our foreign policy....
Now:
I'll bet you can't remember all the Republicans on that 2008 debate stage.
But Ron Paul -- the real maverick, McCain -- will be remembered. Here was the man who dared tell the truth at what he assumed would be the expense of his own popularity.
And who warned of the housing bubble all the way back in 2001, while Republicans like Herman Cain were insisting into September 2008 that only "liberals" were complaining about the economy.
Rick Santorum won the Iowa caucuses in 2012, and he's already forgotten. Nobody thinks: "The ideas of Rick Santorum are still being reckoned with."
But when a neoconservative magazine starts wondering if maybe bellicosity is not serving the United States well, it is being haunted by the benign ghost of Ron Paul.
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