As the American war in Afghanistan enters its ninth full year and our occupation of Iraq its seventh, and as we continue to find all new ways to kill innocent civilians in various countries around the world, and as we continue to transfer billions of dollars every year to Israel and the Egyptian dictatorship -- all while thinking about how to slash Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and thus erode the weak safety net even further, while confronting collapsing domestic infrastructure, rampant unemployment, and massive teacher lay-offs and even grade elimination for American children -- is there any other country you can think of, besides Iran, which "spends its people's precious resources not on roads, or schools, or hospitals, or jobs that benefit all [citizens]" but rather on wars and support for foreign groups which kill "the innocent"? And over the last decade, what was the position of John McCain and his party on whether the "people's precious resources" should be spent (a) on "roads, or schools, or hospitals, or jobs that benefit all" (see here) or (b) wars that kill the innocent?
I don't have a lot to add to that, because he pretty much nails it. But it is heartening that after eight years in Afghanistan and nine years in Iraq, both of which ostensibly centered around some form or another of regime change and nation building, we still have Republican warmonger assholes like McCain being given a platform to advocate for more regime change and more endless military incursions in the Middle East. Maybe McCain should be given a few more appearances on Meet the Press to really drive the point home.
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