War Within McCain Foreign Policy Camp

Filed under: 2008 elections, Foreign Policy, John McCain, Neoconservatives, Pragmatists, Republicans, United States — Michael van der Galien, Editor-in-Chief on April 11, 2008 @ 6:00 pm CEST

The The New York Times has an article up which claims that there might be a war going on between pragmatists and neoconservatives in the McCain camp. They don’t have whole lot of facts to back their case up, nor do they have a good basis to argue that McCain is attracted to the neoconservative point of view all of a sudden. Kevin Sullivan responds: ‘The obvious assumption made throughout the article is that there are two camps in conservative circles; those who mistrust the world, and those who wish to blow it up.  I expect such silly distinctions from the far, far Left, but it would be nice if the Paper of Record could do as Mario Cuomo once advised, and write in fine-quill pens rather than broad strokes that insult their readership.’

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