2008: League of Democracies Being Shelved by McCain?
April 28th, 2008 by Matt
About a year ago today, John McCain first aired the idea of a “League of Democracies” saying that it “would form the core of an international order of peace based on freedom.” McCain also said it would “act where the UN fails to act” while taking care to assure people that it would “complement” not “supplant” the UN and other international organizations. As Sameer Lalwani points out, this is an idea that has been floated in various forms well before the McCain candidacy. Sameer also gives us video of Charles Krauthammer arguing on Fox News that this is a brilliant idea because of its hidden agenda–killing the UN.
Despite McCain’s early enthusiasm for the idea, in Saturday’s LA Times Paul Richter chronicles the downward trajectory of this idea in McCain’s foreign policy rhetoric over the past few months.
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