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A Century in Iraq, Replacing UN With 'League of Democracies,' Rogue State Rollback? A Look at John McCain’s Foreign Policy Visio

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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 :We speak with investigative reporter Robert Dreyfuss about Senator John McCain's vision for foreign policy. "McCain is drawing up plans for a new set of global institutions," Dreyfuss writes. "From a potent covert operations unit to a "League of Democracies" that can bypass the balky United Nations, from an expanded NATO that will bump up against Russian interests in Central Asia and the Caucasus to a revived US unilateralism that will engage in "rogue state rollback" against his version of the "axis of evil." In all, it's a new apparatus designed to carry the "war on terror" deep into the twenty-first century."
Republican Presidential candidate Senator John McCain might have attracted some ridicule last week when he falsely insisted that Iran is training and supplying al-Qaeda in Iraq. McCain corrected himself after independent Senator Joseph Lieberman stepped in and whispered into his ear.

While the media focused on the gaffe, there has been little serious analysis of McCain’s foreign policy. In fact, when it comes to the Middle East and establishing US power in the world, McCain might even be more in line with neoconservative thinking than President Bush. That"s the argument in investigative reporter Robert Dreyfuss’s latest article in the Nation magazine. Its called “Hothead McCain” and outlines the Republican Presidential candidate"s foreign policy vision. Robert Dreyfuss joins us from Washington DC.

Robert Dreyfuss, investigative reporter and contributing editor at The Nation magazine. He is author of “Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam.”

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