Sen McCain has another Rand Paul Meltdown
Today, Senator McCain managed to top his previous unhinged comments about the Kentucky Senator, Rand Paul. And I can’t believe this quote is real, “the senator from Kentucky is now working for Vladimir Putin.” LOL!
The only conclusion you can draw when he walks away is he has no justification for his objection to having a small nation be part of NATO that is under assault from the Russians…So I repeat again, the senator from Kentucky is now working for Vladimir Putin.
Sen. Paul gave a statement to the Daily Beast:
Currently, the United States has troops in dozens of countries and is actively fighting in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen (with the occasional drone strike in Pakistan),” he told The Daily Beast.
“In addition, the United States is pledged to defend 28 countries in NATO. It is unwise to expand the monetary and military obligations of the United States given the burden of our $20 trillion debt.
More on NATO expansion…
McCain’s accusation is obnoxious, but it also shows how weak the case for bringing Montenegro into NATO is. If there were a strong argument in favor of adding a new member, McCain wouldn’t have to stoop to attacking Paul as a Russian pawn, but there isn’t and even he knows that. There are many good reasons why NATO shouldn’t let Montenegro join, not least of which is that it won’t make America or NATO more secure, but it is much easier for McCain to impugn the motives of his opponents than it is to answer their objections. Sen. Paul deserves credit for opposing the unthinking endorsement of continued NATO expansion…
From: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/mccains-obnoxious-montenegro-outburst/
The main reason that advocates for continued expansion want Montenegro in the alliance is that it keeps the idea of expanding NATO alive, and the other reason is that it irks Moscow. Neither of these is a good reason to extend yet another security guarantee to a country that won’t pull its own weight and will contribute virtually nothing to the alliance…
From: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/dont-expand-nato-again/
This has, so quickly, become such a pervasive pathology in US discourse. It'd be funny if it weren't so dangerous. https://t.co/V2wjwVTqwf
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 15, 2017