It is an oft-cited contradiction that the Republican Party generally and John McCain specifically live and die by the appearance of a muscular, one might say braggadocio foreign policy, but that Senator McCain’s biggest knock on Senator Obama has repeatedly been over Obama’s stated intent to get Osama bin-Laden even if he’s in Pakistan and the Pakistani’s cannot or will not go after him. But in last night’s debate, that contradiction was thrown into what I saw as even sharper relief when juxtaposed with McCain’s response to a question about Russia:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DQeXQEitFE[/youtube]
He saw “a K, a G, and a B.” I’m finding it difficult to understand why it is so important to use discretion when working with the Pakistanis – a nation which, after all, gets material support from the United States – but no such discretion is required when dealing with the only nation sitting on as many nuclear weapons as we are.
Can someone help me out, here?
