John McCain, no apto para Comandante en Jefe

Ted Galen Carpenter and Malou Innocent, del Cato Institute, señalan que John McCain tiene más experiencia que Obama en política exterior, pero dudan que su juicio sea superior. El historial de McCain está repleto de pronósticos fallidos, opiniones volátiles, notables errores factuales y una insólita falta de tacto.

(H)e erroneously accused Iran of aiding al Qaeda and suffered the embarrassment of an on-camera correction by his friend and fellow hawk, Sen. Joe Lieberman, that Tehran was aiding "Shiite extremists," not the Sunni zealots of al Qaeda. Yet, during a Senate hearing a few weeks later, McCain committed a similar gaffe. He asked Gen. David Petraeus to confirm that al Qaeda was far more than "an obscure sect of the Shiites," and then, apparently catching himself, added, "or Sunnis or anybody else."

(...) He recently referred to a nonexistent "Iraq-Pakistan border." (The two countries are separated by more than 800 miles of Iranian territory.)

McCain's "joke" at an April 2007 campaign stop, in which he sang "bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran" to the tune of a Beach Boys song, was beyond tasteless. This month, he again offended basic sensibilities when he joked that despite the imposition of economic sanctions, America's unimpeded sale of cigarettes to Iran might be a good thing because "maybe that's a way of killing 'em."

Me parece una broma que alguien así pueda ser Comandante en Jefe del ejército más poderoso del mundo.