McCain wants a new Cold War

Fareed Zakaria: McCain Would Mean Second Cold War

Thank God someone out there is scrutinizing McCain’s neocon craziness.

Newsweek:

On March 26, McCain gave a speech on foreign policy in Los Angeles that was billed as his most comprehensive statement on the subject. It contained within it the most radical idea put forward by a major candidate for the presidency in 25 years. Yet almost no one noticed.

In his speech McCain proposed that the United States expel Russia from the G8, the group of advanced industrial countries. Moscow was included in this body in the 1990s to recognize and reward it for peacefully ending the cold war on Western terms, dismantling the Soviet empire and withdrawing from large chunks of the old Russian Empire as well. McCain also proposed that the United States should expand the G8 by taking in India and Brazil—but pointedly excluded China from the councils of power.

You would think a policy-reversal of this magnitude would merit some attention. Not in McCain’s Media.

(Crooks and Liars)