John McCain, 2008. Van Tine Dennis/ Press Association. All rights reserved.
I got into trouble this weekend after a media interview on John McCain. Friends and colleagues asked –where was my repudiation of McCain’s hawkish promotion of an aggressive US foreign policy, his fervent support for the disastrous invasion of Iraq, his defense of Henry Kissinger as a man of “great honor”, and his push most recently for arms sales to Saudi Arabia as it bombs and starves Yemenis?
How do you weigh a man’s life when he has just died? The scion of a military line, who proudly followed that line. And in so doing, demonstrated courage, character and humanity, alongside an abiding, fierce faith in the violent line and the country that bore him?
