I’m sorry, but you’re wrong, FRiend. As a vet myself, I understand the difference between strategic and tactical decisions, and I can see that the tactical decision to support McCain is a strategic blunder.
Yours is just another variation of the “the other guy/gal is worse” arguments, and it is unpersuasive in light of the actual record of McCain. McCain has already ceded the military tribunals for Gitmo prisoners, where national security secrets may be able to be kept secret without freeing dangerous illegal combatants. Instead, he wants to move these pukes to Leavenworth (where I live, by the way) and grant them free and open civil trials under the rights guaranteed to American citizens by the US Constitution.
He derides waterboarding as “torture”, and proclaims that he can stand a little abridgement of the first amendment for “clean government”.
You can disagree with someone’s principles and their stand to support them, but the insidious attempts to shame someone into abandoning their principles is truly the definition of chutzpah.
First, thank you for your service.
And, second, I never said McCain is ideal on any level. But, given the choices we realistically have, I stand by my opinion that McCain would be a far superior CIC than any Dem candidate and is far more prepared and willing to face global terror...if not perfectly, certainly more agressively.
Godspeed, Sir.
Please take this message to your comrades who tell people to shut up, call them surrender monkeys and stupid.
Doing so would go a longer way in elevating the level of debate than lecturing me.
Thanks.