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Just confirmed. McCain does want a League of Democracies. I’m pleasantly surprised. Here is part of a McCain speech from last year:

“But if some in Russia yearn to turn the clock back two decades, the zealots of Islamic radicalism would turn it back centuries. The mullahs of Iran and the leaders of Al Qaeda and Hezbollah want to cleanse the Muslim world of modernity and the ideals of the Enlightenment, and return it to an imagined past of theological purity. They state their goal plainly: a universal Islamic theocracy, a new Caliphate across all the lands once dominated by Islam, including the lands held in Europe centuries ago. Meanwhile, Mideast autocracies fuel this radicalism by denying their people political expression, economic opportunity or hope for a better future ... But our national interests also require that we continually press for progress ... We have seen how autocratic governments often work against our interests. Iran is able to aggressively pursue nuclear weapons and hegemony in the Persian Gulf, in part, because it has been shielded by the world’s powerful autocracies. North Korea defies the international community with its nuclear weapons and missile programs and an obscene human rights record. Last month, North Korea unsurprisingly missed the first deadline in the most recent nuclear agreement and it remains to be seen if China will use its enormous influence to demand better behavior... We must expand the power and reach of democracy, freedom, and human rights using our many strengths as a free people. But that means making some substantial changes in how we do business... Our partners must be good allies, too. They must have the will and the ability to act in the common defense of freedom, democracy, and economic prosperity... They must spend the money necessary to build effective militaries that can train and fight alongside ours. They must help us deliver aid to those in need and encourage good governance in fragile states. They must face the threats of our world squarely and not evade their global responsibilities. And they must put an end to the mindless anti-Americanism that today mars international discourse. No alliance can work unless all its members share a basic faith in one another and accept an equal share of the responsibility to build a peace based on freedom... This League of Democracies would not supplant the United Nations or other international organizations. It would complement them. But it would be the one organization where the world’s democracies could come together to discuss problems and solutions on the basis of shared principles and a common vision of the future. If I am elected president, I will call a summit of the world’s democracies in my first year to seek the views of my democratic counterparts and begin exploring the practical steps necessary to realize this vision...Americans should lead this effort...When our nation was founded over two hundred years ago, we were the world’s only democratic republic. Today, there are more than 100 electoral democracies spread all across the globe...”

Sounds good. I am all for the League of Democracies.

That’s all we need - another supra-national bureaucracy overseeing the affairs of otherwise-sovereign states. (Why is it that our elected leaders always want to turn this country over to anybody but Americans?!)

I prefer American sovereignty. If we need allies and treaties, fine, we can handle those according to OUR Constitution, not the constitution of some “league of democracies”.