A FRIEND INDEED!
Arizona Senator John McCain never, ever tires of promoting endless war around the world. Back in the 1960's, McCain was flying high, literally; dropping hundreds of bombs on innocent North Vietnamese in our colossal failure of a 14 year war (1961-1975) that killed millions, mostly Vietnamese. Thirty-five years later McCain was one of the biggest boosters of our fairy tale but murderous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, never missing a chance to ratchet up the rhetoric or the troop levels.
He did take time out, however, to cozy up to Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi, responsible for the persecution and murder of untold thousands of his own people in his 42 year long saga holding onto power in a gigantic country composed of three completely disparate tribes. Once Gadhafi admitted guilt and paid billions in reparations for the Pan Am bombing over Scotland in 1988, McCain became one of the biggest US cheerleaders for the "reformed" tyrant; even leading a delegation of Senators on a photo op visit inside the strongman's lair on August 14, 2009. That night McCain, now officially pallin' around with terrorists, tweeted: "Interesting meeting with an interesting man".
But when one of the two non Gadhafi tribes revolted, McCain was right there on the virtual front lines, cheering on the rebels and excoriating President Obama for not using a more robust military to whack Gadhafi in days, instead of the eight months required.
Tyrants beware: with friends like McCain, you don't need enemies.
He did take time out, however, to cozy up to Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi, responsible for the persecution and murder of untold thousands of his own people in his 42 year long saga holding onto power in a gigantic country composed of three completely disparate tribes. Once Gadhafi admitted guilt and paid billions in reparations for the Pan Am bombing over Scotland in 1988, McCain became one of the biggest US cheerleaders for the "reformed" tyrant; even leading a delegation of Senators on a photo op visit inside the strongman's lair on August 14, 2009. That night McCain, now officially pallin' around with terrorists, tweeted: "Interesting meeting with an interesting man".
But when one of the two non Gadhafi tribes revolted, McCain was right there on the virtual front lines, cheering on the rebels and excoriating President Obama for not using a more robust military to whack Gadhafi in days, instead of the eight months required.
Tyrants beware: with friends like McCain, you don't need enemies.
posted by Walt Zlotow at 3:24 PM
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