Scathing Rebuke of John McCain: Throw Rummy Under the Train
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I agree with a lot of what this guy is saying. I really like McCain. He’s been will to take principled stands, though it has cost him the support of the more extreme wing of his party. It has also cost him a presidential nomination. he’s decided that a little compromise is OK. But at what cost…
Forget the kick-a-guy-after-he’s-been-run-over-by-a-train aspect of McCain’s remarks. McCain is clearly trying to distance himself from the failings of this war. As David Gergen put it to me recently: “John McCain’s fortunes are tied Iraq; he’s the tail to that kite now, because the president has embraced the McCain formula of more troops, and the probability is that this kite’s not going to fly very well.”
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So Rummy makes a convenient scapegoat. But what chafes my hide is that McCain, alone among sitting senators not named Warner, could have been instrumental in forcing the president to remove Rumsfeld earlier. Years earlier. And yet John McCain offered instead his silent consent to Rummy’s historically incompetent leadership.
This is no longer a man of principle. This is a man so rapt by the idea of becoming The Decider that there is no ideological jujitsu he’s unwilling to perform to gain that power.
Add comment February 20th, 2007