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US alliance? With President McCain? No thanks

February 28, 2008 on 1:14 pm | In Uncategorized |

John McCain, the bloke who could well be the next president of the United States, is a dangerous war-loving power-crazy maniac. Here’s his latest paranoid ranting about the monster in the American closet:

McCain, who has linked his candidacy to a successful outcome in Iraq, attacked Obama’s stance on the war at a town hall meeting in Texas as he seeks to wrap up the Republican presidential nomination.

Obama said during the debate with Clinton that once he withdrew U.S. troops from Iraq, if al Qaeda were to form a base there, “then we will have to act in a way that secures the American homeland and our interests abroad.”

“I have some news,” McCain said. “Al Qaeda is in Iraq. It’s called Al Qaeda in Iraq. My friends, if we left, they wouldn’t be establishing a base, they’d be taking a country and I’m not going to allow that to happen.”

If the Americans left Iraq al Qaeda would be ‘taking the country’? What deranged mindset inspired that piece of idiocy? The truly scary thing is the possibility that McCain actually believes this bullshit … that he’s so insulated from the real world that it no longer touches him. Even the most rudimentary knowledge of al Qaeda and the Middle East reveals that:

• al Qaeda is NOT the same as ‘al Qaeda in Iraq’ - in fact the latter is a convenient catch-all label invented by the yanks to describe just about anybody in Iraq who has resisted the occupation.
• most Iraqis hate the genuine al Qaeda, which had no presence there prior to the invasion, and are quite capable of running them out of the country without any assistance from the USA.
• al Qaeda is not, repeat not, an organisation that wants to ‘take over’ countries. It wants the infidel out of Muslim lands.
• if and when the USA pulls out of Iraq, the country will largely be dominated by Iran. Iran is no friend of al Qaeda. Nor is Turkey, which will be the most influential country in the north.

In short, McCain is talking complete crap. I can think of three possible explanations:

1. He and his advisers have the mental capacity of 10 year olds and are incapable of understanding even the most basic history, sociology, anthropology etc.
2. He and his advisers are lunatics who inhabit their own alternative world which is never going to be affected by anything that happens in RealityWorld.
3. He and his advisers are extremely dangerous people who are deliberately deceiving their fellow Americans in order to promote their own private agenda.

I don’t pretend to know for sure which one is the best explanation, just as I still can’t work out what drives the behaviour of Bush, Cheney and company. What I do know is this: if any one of those explanations is true of the man who could well be the next president, it’s a flashing neon light for Australia to distance itself from the American alliance as quickly as it can do so.