Fred Kaplan, columnist for Slate and author of Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power, discusses his recent article: ‘How Much Does John McCain Really Know About Foreign Policy? Not As Much As He’d Like You To Think‘ which lays out McCain’s many foreign policy misstatements and mistakes including wanting to kick Russia out of the G8 and start a ‘League of Democracies’ to bypass the U.N., his wish to take policy back to the early years of the Bush administration and how the McCain/neocon view falsely assumes the U.S. can and should rule the world.
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