McCain on Foreign Policy


John McCain gave a speech yesterday, on American foreign policy, that rivals the thoughtfulness of Barack Obama's speech on race last week. He doesn't have the same eloquence and fluency, but he stated his case just as well.

He called for a new league of democracies and defined success in Iraq and Afghanistan as "the establishment of peaceful, stable, prosperous, democratic states that pose no threat to neighbors and contribute to the defeat of terrorists. It is the triumph of religious tolerance over violent radicalism." To abandon either country would be a dangerous mistake.

Here's a transcript of the prepared text. You can watch almost all of the speech here, except for the first 10 paragraphs.

Some excerpts on YouTube:




Yes, he's old, old enough to remember Pearl Harbor. And suffering, I suspect, from jet lag. But I like him.

via Dean's World.

Posted: Thu - March 27, 2008 at 07:19 PM          

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