McCain Talks Tough Fastest
This week McCain was sounding tougher than ever on the situation in Georgia, calling Russia an unrepentant combatant against a “brave little nation” and compared Russian “killing” in the “tiny little democracy” to Prague and Budapest in the Cold War. In contrast, McCain supporters in the Senate have been crowing about how slow Obama was to take a hard line, Senator Lindsey Graham arguing that Obama is now “playing catch-up”.
What I don’t understand, however, is how winning points on foreign policy in this campaign has required little more than being the fastest to talk tough.
Things are pretty rubbish for the Georgians right now but surely into the equation of a potential president has to go the need to keep Russia playing nice on a whole host of issues (Iran, energy, NATO etc), issues that might be jeopardised when everyone starts acting like its a Tom Clancy novel.
A bit of Cold War trash talk might sound like experience to some. To me it sounds like McCain is singing a tired old tune.
And what a wonderfully oppotune moment to conclude that missile defence deal! Really set the Russians at ease that did.