How Much Does John McCain Really Know About Foreign Policy?

Not as much as he'd like you to think.

By Fred Kaplan

After Barack Obama's opening day in Iraq this week, the New York Times headline read, "For Obama, a First Step Is Not a Misstep." The story, by Richard Oppel Jr. and Jeff Zeleny, noted, "Mr. Obama seemed to have navigated one of the riskiest parts of a weeklong international trip without a noticeable hitch."

That was the big nail-biter: Would Obama, the first-term senator and foreign-policy newbie, utter an irrevocably damaging gaffe? The nightmare scenarios were endless. Maybe he would refer to "the Iraq-Pakistan border," or call the Czech Republic "Czechoslovakia" (three times), or confuse Sunni with Shiite, or say that the U.S. troop surge preceded (and therefore caused) the Sunni Awakening in Anbar province.

But, of course, it was Obama's opponent, John McCain—the war hero and ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee—who uttered these eyebrow-raisers. "Czechoslovakia" was clearly a gaffe, and understandable for anyone who was sentient during the Cold War years. What about the others, though? Were they gaffes—slips of the tongue, blips of momentary fatigue? Or did they reflect lazy thinking, conceptual confusion, a mind frame clouded by clichéd abstractions?

If Obama had blurted even one of those inanities (especially the one about the Iraq-Pakistan border), the media and the McCain campaign would have been all over him like red ants on a wounded puppy.

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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Schopenhauer

When it comes to foreign policy you might also mention that Obama was the only candidate who had the good sense to see from the beginning that the Iraq invasion was wrong. He's now been proven correct.

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You know all that stuff you learned from listening to Rush Limbaugh and Bill ORielly? It's all a lie. Pass it on.

No, Obama was not the only candidate. Ron Paul voted against the Iraq war from the very beginning.

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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Schopenhauer

I stand corrected. Thanks

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You know all that stuff you learned from listening to Rush Limbaugh and Bill ORielly? It's all a lie. Pass it on.

Obama was is wrong about the war and many things. What I don't like about Obama the most is he will not admit he was wrong about the surge he knows it worked why can't he just say so. Any one that can't admit their wrong is to
arrogant to be president. Obama I am going to do it my way??
It should be I am going to do the right thing.

The surge hasn't worked. There is no stable, independent Iraq around the corner. And the Middle East is still a powder keg.

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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Schopenhauer

Ok but if I was you I would watch out for that sand.
Obama and you are the only ones that think that.

If the surge worked why are we still needed in Iraq? According to you guys the Iraqi people can govern themselves without our help.

E.Pluribus Unum

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E.Pluribus Unum

People of power have NO good will and people of good will have NO power.

If you think Education is Expensive try Ignorance.

Its weak too speak and blame somebody else when you destroy yourself.

RP is a bat(*)(*)(*)(*) racist and typical libertarian cook.