Fareed Zakaria has a bit to say about John McCain's foreign policy speech from back in March.
On March 26, McCain gave a speech on foreign policy in Los Angeles that was billed as his most comprehensive statement on the subject. It contained within it the most radical idea put forward by a major candidate for the presidency in 25 years. Yet almost no one noticed.Go read the whole thing; Zakaria does a great job of showing just why McCain's is such a reckless idea. I had no idea that McCain had suggested this, but I (like Zakaria) cannot foresee an upside to alienating other nuclear powers while protecting nuclear materials is such a key component of the War on Terror. Of course, McCain's problems sorting out Iraq's factions suggests an already poor grasp of the forces at work in the war, but that's a subject for another time.
In his speech McCain proposed that the United States expel Russia from the G8, the group of advanced industrial countries. Moscow was included in this body in the 1990s to recognize and reward it for peacefully ending the cold war on Western terms, dismantling the Soviet empire and withdrawing from large chunks of the old Russian Empire as well. McCain also proposed that the United States should expand the G8 by taking in India and Brazil—but pointedly excluded China from the councils of power.
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