Do you think McCain is crazy for wanting to throw Russia out of the Group of 8 major powers?

Question

Moscow has "influence, money, energy resources, UN Security Council veto &, yes, an arms industry"...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/world/europe/22policy.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin

Answer 1

Well, no.  But lets step back for a second.  Over the last twenty years the United States has been instrumental in rebuilding Russia as a soveriegn nation.  I'm just having trouble with this, because if you look at the cold war from the standpoint of capitalism vs. communism.  Well it would look like we rebuilt their country along with the entire region around our own intentions.  Communists will never see that capitalism is better through force or trickery.  It has to be a lesson they learn on their own or they'll never appreciate it.

Answer 2

That would be smarter than fighting them in combat.

Answer 3

Yeah, I really think he WANTS to start World War 3. What else could they possibly be doing all this for? They started a war with Iraq for what? WMDs? No...

maybe they didn't even start it for oil, or for bush's stupid father--maybe they started it simply to watch people die.

Is the world really that gray? Turn on the local primetime news and then tell me how wrong you think I am.

Answer 4

No.  The only reason they're even a member is because they're oil suppliers and nothing else.  

Answer 5

I guess he'd rather go to war  

Answer 6

No. I think its a great idea! If they are gonna be stupid and invade other countries then they should be kicked out. Why should we not? Should we be afraid of them? I don't think so! We need to let them know that we aren't gonna let them do what n**i Germany did! We should talk tough to them. Very tough! We need to let them know that they could never win a Nuclear war against the US. And thats the truth!

Answer 7

What are you talking about ? An old guy  can not dress himself less 'throw away' somebody.....

Answer 8

John McCain belongs in the nut house instead of the White house. Throw out Russia? Russia is a very powerful country they can trow all of us along with  mentally disabled McCain and Neocons from he face of the Earth.

Answer 9

he is forever demented

Answer 10

Hey Persian Kitty:

No  I do think that is crazy, But Crazy is McCain's best attribute. If it wasn't for McCain's 26 years of Crazy Bipartisan politics I would be supporting Ralph Nader.

As to the rest of your question.

Someone needs to throw all the G 8 neocons out

Look around the Global mark is collapsing All Nations are experiencing a re-emergence of protectionism.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that fat lazy  Billionaires  at a secret meeting are not working in your best interests.

Regional Markets simply work more effeciently. Than hauling widgets in container ships.

Answer 11

I love this tactic.  I am sure liberals would just blame ourselves but reality dictates some action other than surrender.  This is minor in the scheme of things.

Answer 12

To say that McCain is crazy is to absolve him of any responsibility from the otherwise rash & ill-advised comments he just made.  No, McCain knows exactly what he is doing by fanning the flames of tension between the US & Russia.  He wants to appear tough on "rogue" states while parading himself around the campaign trail as a "champion of democracy worldwide" all in lock-step with his neo-con masters.  Most Americans tend to be generally ignorant of world affairs so this is what the "Straight Talk Express" is banking its hopes on to keep up the charade of its national (in)security team.  If voters truly were informed about the circumstances surrounding the recent clashes in the Caucusus, they'd think twice about throwing their support behind a "trigger-happy" candidate looking to renew the Cold War and possibly another global arms-race.

Answer 13

YES

Answer 14

h**l ya, I think McSame is crazy Period.

Regards.

Answer 15

McCain = idiot. Maybe everyone should vote for throwing the USA out for being the fascist world police.

Answer 16

No, I think he's crazy for endorsing policies that have been disastrous every time they've been tried in the past and expecting a more positive result this time.  But that's just another way of saying that he's a conservative.

Answer 17

McCain is old senile, brain damaged and suicidal warmongering degenerate. He can only trow out himself from 20th story window in his 3rd and hopefully final suicide attempt.

Answer 18

Yes, he is. But this is also an indicator of his warlike solutions in foreign policy. He's a great danger to the world and the US.He's just a dangerous tin soldier, with a Napoleonic complex

Answer 19

LOL at Condor's view on things!!!!! = )  

Answer 20

He's crazy Period!  

Answer 21

I think this is a goal of someone who lived through the entire Cold War period, harbors a deep distrust of Russian government, and wants to push US hegemony even though the cost of such is far too high to sustain in its current form.

Is he crazy?  No, he's just not looking at the situation from a realistic perspective.  Russia holds a decent share of power, the primary goal should be to direct this power towards goals also beneficial to the US, not to try to strip Russia of power and generate resentment.