Posted by
Bert Chapman on Friday, February 01, 2008 2:34:48 PM
There is an excellent column by the distinguished conservative columnist Thomas Sowell on how McCain has flat out lied about Mitt Romney's position on Iraq and Romney's alleged support for a withdrawal timetable which can be found at
http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/tsowell/2008/ts_02011.shtmlMcCain, in an effort to bolster his alleged superior credentials on national security and Iraqi strategy prescience, has resorted to flat out falsehoods on Romney's position on Iraq that needed to be exposed. Mark Levin also effectively demonstates in a National Review online posting that McCain's claims to be sound on national security have flaws. Levin mentions that McCain was not an advocate for defense spending while military budgets were being slashed during the Clinton Administration and he also slams McCain for wanting to close Guantanamo and providing unprecedented legal rights and protections to terrorist detainees. Clearly, McCain's experience at a POW in the Hanoi Hilton, has caused him to have excessive respect for legal norms toward terrorist sadists who do not recognize and have utter contempt for western legal standards.
McCain has also sought to seek support based on his being part of what Tom Brokaw has described as the "greatest generation." Calling a generation the "greatest generation" reflects utter arrogance and absolute historical amnesia. All generations of humanity have great and mediocre individuals and to claim that the Depression and World War II era generation is the greatest in U.S. or world history reeks of hubris. This alleged greatest generation includes many fine individuals, such as my parents, but it also includes incompetent parents who helped spawn the laziness and moral permissiveness which resulted in the upheavals of the 1960s such as drug abuse, family breakdown, and permissive sexual mores which afflict our society in so many ways. Americans should recognize that the Depression and World War II generation has had its opportunity for governmental leadership and that it is time for them to retire from the stage, with all their accomplishments and failures, and let younger generations, with all of our strengths and faults, have their opportunity, for better or worse, to shape America's future.