Authored by Jim Carey via GeopoliticsAlert.com,
Earlier this week notorious war hawk US Senator John McCain (R-Az) was diagnosed with brain cancer. While the liberal and conservative establishments are sending their regards, Geopolitics Alert instead compiled a list of reasons why we don’t care about McCain.
The list is of course a history of all the instances McCain has called for US-led intervention around the world. There’s obviously a long history here, so Geopolitics Alert has compiled the largest examples from Europe to Asia. We’ll start with the obvious wars first.
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Afghanistan and Iraq
Obviously every US senator (besides California’s Barbara Lee) voted to give president George W. Bush the power to invade Afghanistan following the events of September 11th. However, McCain wasn’t happy with just moving to invade Afghanistan. No, he had other targets on his mind as early as the day after the towers fell.
Despite McCain’s claim in 2014 that “the Iraq war probably wouldn’t have happened” if he had won the 2000 Republican primary and then general election, this assertion seems ridiculous. On September 12th 2001, McCain appeared on MSNBC presenting a long list of countries he felt were providing a “safe harbor” to groups like al Qaeda. This list of course included Iraq and several other countries that appear later on this list.
Syria
Another country on that 2001 list (of course) was Syria. Now, the Bush regime may have never gotten a chance to continue toppling Mideast countries (thanks to the failure in Iraq and the exposure of that war being sold on lies). But McCain seemingly never lost sight of his hatred for Bashar Al-Assad.
Shortly after the Arab Spring “broke out” in Syria, McCain – and his constant partner in war crimes Sen. Lindsey Graham – quickly found communication channels with the “Syrian opposition.” Just a few short months after the US endorsed protests in Syria (even having their ambassador attend), McCain and Graham began calling for arms to start flowing to the Free Syrian Army and other “rebel” groups.
Libya
McCain’s plans for Syria never quite worked the way he wanted but he probably should’ve know they would never yield a positive result. If McCain didn’t want to look at Iraq to prove that point, he had another more recent example he could’ve used: the NATO intervention in Libya.
It was less than a year before McCain wanted to arm Syrian takfiris that he had supported with the bombing and no fly zones in Libya. McCain even wanted tougher actions against the country. Which has now become an anarchic Wild West that’s home to all sorts of horrors from the Islamic State to a new slave trade.
West and Central Africa
McCain is also a champion of the “war on terror” in other parts of Africa. While McCain hasn’t directly supported terrorists in some countries in Africa, he still has called for more US intervention across the continent.
This list includes countries dealing with Islamic insurgencies, such as Mali. McCain has also called for plans like “deploying Special Forces” to rescue girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria and intervention in Sudan, where McCain and his wife have invested money for some time.
Iran
Another country on the list of hated nations originally put forth by Bush undersecretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz, and also another long time target of McCain, is of course Iran.
Although McCain has always said “he prays” there will never be at war with Iran, the man constantly calls for it and even jokes about bombing the country when he feels the mood is right. The truth of the matter is, McCain’s positions towards Iran are so hostile that even flagship neoconservative institutions like the Cato Institute think he is too hawkish.
Bosnia and Kosovo
But McCain isn’t satisfied with just backing salafi jihadists in the traditional Middle East and North African theaters. He’s also backed violent radicals across the fringes of Europe. This trend really started in the mid 1990’s when McCain was a vocal supporter of then president Bill Clinton’s war in Bosnia.
Many of the Muslims traveling to Bosnia joining the mujahideen there have joined groups like IS in recent years. And IS flags can occasionally be seen in the Sunni areas of Bosnia now. McCain was still backing potential takfiri movements, recently accusing Russia of interfering in local affairs, and calling for more US intervention in the country.
McCain made similar decisions when he advocated US intervention in Kosovo in the late 90’s. In the Kosovo conflict, McCain backed the Kosovo Liberation Army: a genocidal jihadist organization with ties to Al Qaeda under Osama Bin Laden.
Ukraine
Don’t be fooled into thinking that McCain only supports jihadists in Eastern Europe though! He also backs the overt Nazis acting as death squads for Kiev in the ongoing Ukrainian conflict.
This of course started in 2014, but McCain has continued to pledge support for Kiev’s crimes in the Donbass region to this day. This is all par for the course in McCain’s larger theme of challenging Russia– the country he believes controls the separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Russia
The story of McCain’s hatred of Russia spans back to the Cold War. We won’t get into McCain’s fear of communism that’s evolved into just general Russophobia. But we will say he didn’t have many excuses to focus on making threats towards Moscow for a good 15-20 year stretch.
This changed in 2008, with the war in South Ossetia between Georgia and Russia. During this conflict McCain was the loudest voice saying the US “should immediately call a meeting of the North Atlantic Council to assess Georgia’s security and review measures NATO can take to contribute to stabilizing this very dangerous situation.”
This same situation repeated in Ukraine in 2014 but McCain’s worst comments came this year. As soon as the US Intelligence Community’s accused Russia of interference in the 2016 US elections– and without any evidence– McCain was first to say the event was an “act of war.”
North Korea
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DRPK/North Korea) was also an early target of McCain’s making his September 12th wish list. More recently though, the restyled “Trump opponent” McCain was all-in on the new regime’s saber rattling. Calling on Trump to strike the nuclear armed country.
Bonus: China
China is kind of in its own class with McCain, who’s made strange vague threats towards the country in the past. Such as “the Arab spring is coming to China,” whatever that means. China may be a target on the periphery for McCain but he does still encourage antagonizing the country to this day. Calling for things like more “freedom of navigation drills” and other naval exercises in the South China Sea.
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So, in summation, next time someone asks why you don’t care about John McCain’s clock running out, show them this article. McCain has encouraged the spread of death worldwide. The day he leaves congress will be a victory for the human race.
Man, I hate this guy. I hated him so badly when he ran against Obama that, until he picked Palin(and wow, what a jewel of an acceptance speech) I was having a hard time talking myself into voting for him. I honestly think as much a nightmare that Obama was in that first term(HowTF did Romney lose??) that McCain would have been worse albeit in different ways.
The ad he ran where he’s walking along the border with a ball cap on sums up his lying POS ass when he says, “Build the dang wall”
He can’t exit fast enough as far as I’m concerned.
Which is my #1 reason for not voting for him in 2008 and started my path in joining the Libertarian party.
I was having a conversation in the office with my two young liberal employees and they once again asserted that democrats are the party of peace, and republicans are war mongers.
If you go back to WWI more dem presidents are involved with starting wars than republicans, and yes I know it takes an act of congress to declare war, the majority of the time, even under Bush, dems controlled congress.
That fact didn’t matter to my little liberals, just quick change the subject to Trump or Russia. Damn good thing they are so good at their jobs.
“Young” and “liberal” means that they are historically ignorant and unlikely to impartially assess facts. The ranks of those who mourned at Donald Trump’s victory are filled with such people – “legion,” I’d call them.
As for McCain, he is probably the most warmongering politician of the past generation with the possible exception of Hillary Clinton.
John McCain is a member of the Rockefeller/CFR, along with Bill Clinton and George Soros. Fellow CFR members David Petraeus, Joe Lieberman and Lynn Forester de Rothschild are trustees at the McCain Institute.
“It’s good to have an outpost of the Council right here down the street from the State Department. We get a lot of ‘advice’ from the Council, so this will mean I won’t have as far to go to be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the future.”
— Hillary Clinton speech at CFR, 2009-07-15
You can go futher back to WW1 with Wilson (Dem).
Wilson had to know the Germans would sink the Luisitania due to the military arms/weapons in the ship’s hold.
“The German embassy in Washington was well aware of the nature of the cargo being loaded aboard the Lusitania and filed a formal complaint to the United States government, because almost all of it was in direct violation of international neutrality treaties. The response was a flat denial of any knowledge of such cargo. Seeing that the Wilson Administration was tacitly approving the shipment, the German embassy made one final effort to avert disaster. It placed an ad in fifty East Coast newspapers, including those in New York City, warning Americans not to take passage on the Lusitania. The ad was prepaid and requested to be placed on the paper’s travel page a full week before the sailing date. –Of the fifty newspapers, only the Des Moines Register carried the ad on the requested date.”
Wilson was a war criminal.
What would you have had Wilson do?
Not sacrifice innocent lives trying to get the U.S. into a war which, in Presidential campaign, he promised to keep America out of ‘their’ war.
The Luisitania was a form of false flag to accomplish an objective – charge up the emotions of the U.S. citizens to provide legitimacy for the Administration to send our troops to die.
Anon asked,
“What would you have had Wilson do?”
keet us the hell out of ww1,which would have led to a negotiated peace,which would have probably prevented ww2–
Warmongering is only one of the many nauseating traits of John McCain. He was a crummy pilot. A ‘cad and a bounder’ in his private life, leaving his wife who had stood by him after he was shot down to marry a rich beer baroness. A nasty, short tempered megalomaniac.
His warmongering might have been understandable had he been a genuine war hero but he wasn’t a Dick Bong, Chuck Yeager or even a fallen hero like ‘Duke’ Cunningham. He was only an ‘Ace’ in his mind and his Navy career a failure by any conventional standards.
unit,i had forgotten about duke cunningham and had to look him up–
he spent 7 years in the pen-a long time for fraud–
There is an American premise that “we never leave any American military person behind”.
I wish that were true, but it is a bald-faced LIE.
Despite verifiable live sightings of American POWS still held in Southeast Asia, John “songbird” McCain and John “francois” Kerry pushed through legislation that made it ILLEGAL to pursue resolution of these live sightings.
It is a loosely-guarded “secret” that only HALF of our Vietnam POWs were returned. Half of them were held by the North Vietnamese as “bargaining chips”, to be released when promised “reparations” were delivered. Reparations never took place as Congress refused to allot any funds. Thus our American servicemen were condemned to live out the rest of their lives in captivity.
As late as the 1990’s and 2000’s live verifiable sightings of Americans were “swept under the rug”. You see, “normalization of relations” between the USA and Vietnam were “on the front burner”. Admission that there were Americans still held would have derailed McCain’s and Kerry’s “dream”.
Both McCain and Kerry should be indicted, tried and convicted of TREASON with appropriate punishment carried out…
anarchyst….also
Thousands of GI’s were ‘sequestered’ by Russia at the end of WW2 and never returned – for political reasons for much the same as you cited.
Do you have a source for that? I’m unsure where or when “1000s of GIs” would or could have been taken prisoner by Russia during WW2.