Snagged this one via Reddit. A great point here, that we all know about McCain’s personality, and whenever people discuss him it’s usually his “straight talk express” business or how much of a “maverick” he is. Rarely are his politics the focal point, and that’s a shame, because they really need examined.

McCain has been banging the drum from nearly Day One to put more boots on the ground in Iraq. “There are a lot of things that we can do to salvage this,” he said on “Meet the Press” on Nov. 12, “but they all require the presence of additional troops.” McCain is more inclined to start wars and increase troop levels than George W. Bush or Bill Clinton. He has supported every U.S. military intervention of the last two decades, urged both presidents to rattle their sabers louder over North Korea and Iran, lamented the Pentagon’s failure to intervene in Darfur and Rwanda and supported a general policy of “rogue state rollback.” He’s a fan of Roosevelt’s Monroe-Doctrine-on-steroids stick-wielding in Latin America. And — like Bush — he thinks too much multilateralism can screw up a perfectly good war.

Bush is not a war-mongerer, don’t confuse him for that. In fact, I’d go so far as to say he really hates wars in general. He’s giving Iran and North Korea more second chances than a mother trying to quiet down her spoiled child (”One… two… two and a half… two and three quarters…”). For all the horrors in Sudan we find silence from him. Terrorism in any other nations besides Iraq and Afghanistan go largely, if not completely, ignored.

Bush is an Iraq-War-Mongerer. He loves his Iraq War. That was his goal in his presidency, and the only one he wanted to wage. McCain seems to love his wars in general. Fight everyone that we don’t like. And you know, I don’t think we as a nation would be able to survive through multiple US-alone wars scattered across the globe.

McCain in 08: the Straight-Talk Express drives us right through a hundred warzones.