The puppet-designate of the Reptilican Party likes it too.
Digby:
...I remember reading some stuff recently about how it was unseemly for Barack Obama to go on an overseas trip. Why, he was acting like he'd already won! Now, we have McCain making statements on television that are having an actual impact on an international crisis, and which might even be illegal, and I'm hearing gasbags say he looks very presidential. It looks more like presumptuousness to me.
But then a grizzled old veteran's presumptuousness isn't the same as a young, African American upstart's, is it?
Update: Even Jonathan Martin at the Politico sees something amiss with this one:
I think Greg Sargent is on to something regarding McCain's announcement at his press conference today that Sens. Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman — his two closest friends in the Senate — will be heading to Georgia soon.
Yes, they're both members of the Armed Services Committee. But McCain's declaration has something of a shadow government feel to it, as though he's sending his own emissaries into the war zone.
Try to imagine if Obama had announced that he was sending Biden and Levin to the war zone...
Well, that's because everyone knows the Democrats might get the crazy idea to try to negotiate peace or something.
Not part of the plan. It's Endless War, remember?
Krugman sees the event horizon:
...I found myself wondering whether this war is an omen — a sign that the second great age of globalization may share the fate of the first.
If you’re wondering what I’m talking about, here’s what you need to know: our grandfathers lived in a world of largely self-sufficient, inward-looking national economies — but our great-great grandfathers lived, as we do, in a world of large-scale international trade and investment, a world destroyed by nationalism.
Writing in 1919, the great British economist John Maynard Keynes described the world economy as it was on the eve of World War I. “The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth ... he could at the same moment and by the same means adventure his wealth in the natural resources and new enterprises of any quarter of the world.”
And Keynes’s Londoner “regarded this state of affairs as normal, certain, and permanent, except in the direction of further improvement ... The projects and politics of militarism and imperialism, of racial and cultural rivalries, of monopolies, restrictions, and exclusion ... appeared to exercise almost no influence at all on the ordinary course of social and economic life, the internationalization of which was nearly complete in practice.”
But then came three decades of war, revolution, political instability, depression and more war. By the end of World War II, the world was fragmented economically as well as politically. And it took a couple of generations to put it back together.
So, can things fall apart again? Yes, they can...
Almost no one wants the Endless War. Except, of course, Bu$hie's Ba$e, the oil barons and the warborg of Northrop-Grummon, Boeing, Lockheed, and the Barons of Wall Street. War is bad for business, you say? Exactly whose business are you talking about, comrade?
Certainly not the business of the would be oligarchs who've clawed their way into Power again in the 21st Century.
Here and in Russia, too.
Incidently, while you weren't looking, Bu$hie's Company has decided to build missiles in Poland, with the excuse that we'll use them against the Muslim Menace.
You know, the one with all the ICBMs on Russian soil.
Looks like Russia doesn't believe that one either, and if the Reptilicans want to serve up the Cold War all over again, they may have just pissed off a really big Bear looking for a good meat side for its own beet soup.
Endless War is after all an old world standard recipe for control.
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