Yay! McCain is putting the country ahead of party now. Is good to see.
I wonder how he would have taken to a couple of little edits.
"McCain said:
To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain the last best hope of earth for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history."
Maybe could have said:
To fear the world we have [led in organizing] for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain [a leading] best hope of earth for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history.
which offers some credit to all the others who have been involved in the organizing, and does not give quite a blatant nod to the idea of American exceptionalism.
McCain's "last" didn't feel right. Don't mean to be picky. Just a thought.
In general it would be hard for any objective onlooker to not see McCain's comment as pretty much a bullseye black eye.
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It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
