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John McCain and the League of Democracies!

Matt Welch has a terrific rundown about McCain’s foreign policy and the absurdity thereto, both of McCain’s actual policies and the media’s hilarious (yet sad) distortions of same to give it the perception of centrism, rather than the reality, which is pretty much blatant American imperialism on a grand scale. I’d encourage you to read the whole thing, but one of the best bits is on McCain’s proposal to build a League of Democracies! under American leadership to combat evil regimes.

now, there secure been times that i induce been intrigued by a league of democracies, as has jonathan rauch, but regardless of whatever rauch, welch or mccain might think about a 21st century league of nations, the line point is that there is no started in Acheron anything remotely analogous to this is happening any time in the next decade. after eight years of a cranky, go-it-alone cadaverous house that won re-election in quarter by bashing totter-wristed euro-weenies, the chances of another interventionist republican winsome enough beneficial faith among grumbly allies to create a maker spanking stylish america-defined club of winners are something approaching zero.

I think that’s pretty much exactly right. Frankly, I think there’s a real danger of forming an organization like McCain proposes, because it’s pretty much going to guarantee that large economic powers that don’t fit the membership criteria are probably going to form some sort of alliance to oppose it (a Legion of Autocracy?), which is only going to entrench positions, provoke hositilities and diminish our influence and working relationships with those countries.

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We’d be much better off, in my opinion, with working to form a coalition with other liberal democracies to work for common interests within the framework of the United Nations. True, the United Nations isn’t perfect, but as Matthew Yglesias points out, much of the dysfunction at the U.N. has to do with the indifference of countries in participating into it. There’s a great potential for making the U.N. a stronger, more effective body. But that does require actually working with the U.N., instead of doing nothing and then complaining that the U.N. “doesn’t do anything.”

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