Title: John McCain: ‘I’m Ashamed Of My Country, I’m Ashamed Of My President, I’m Ashamed Of Myself’ Source:
Yahoo! News URL Source:http://news.yahoo.com/john-mccain-m ... hamed-president-175342180.html Published:Feb 22, 2015 Author:The Daily Caller Post Date:2015-02-22 17:34:26 by X-15 Keywords:None Views:4496 Comments:83
Arizona U.S. Sen. John McCain said something on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday about the U.S.’s handling of the ongoing standoff between Russia and Ukraine that surprised host Bob Schieffer.
“I’m ashamed of my country, I’m ashamed of my president and I’m ashamed of myself that I haven’t done more to help these people,” McCain said. “It is really, really heartbreaking.”
McCain was expressing his frustration with how the U.S. and major European powers like France and Germany have failed to stop Russian president Vladimir Putin’s advance on Ukraine.
“I believe that German chancellor and president of France legitimized for the first time in 70 years the dismemberment of a country in Europe. It’s shameful. Vladimir Putin has not paid any price,” McCain said.
McCain supports providing weapons to Ukraine to help fight against the Russians and pro-Russian separatists. The Ukranians “are not asking for American boots on the ground, but merely weapons to defend themselves against the Russian onslaught,” McCain said.
“Vladimir Putin wants Ukraine not to be part of Europe, and he is succeeding in doing so,” McCain continued, adding “this is really a dark chapter in the history of our alliance.”
Schieffer circled back to McCain’s comments about being ashamed because of the U.S.’s failure to intervene, expressing just how surprised he was to hear the Republican say that.
“I’ll say this, senator, I’ve known you for a long, long time, interviewed you many, many times, and I’ve never heard you say I’m ashamed of my country, which you just said,” said Shieffer.
And to think: Americans funded the revolution and then supported Stalin in the war. Who's worse? The enablers or the perpetrators? We sit back in relative ease (250,000 killed vs. millions) while the Russians do what you described above to the German people, and then we claim the victory.
Maybe Americans think they're culturally superior, although they financed or supplied much of the mayhem in the 20th century. Freedom though, what glorious freedom we have had!
And Stalin came to power on a revolution paid for by American and UK bankers. I'll note that Jews run this country too. Why weren't we capable of stopping what we helped start over there when it happened to us?
I see no moral high ground here. Only self-delusion.
Have you viewed some of the thousands of photos available concerning the Holodomor, read any or all of the writings of Gareth Jones, or Walter Duranty?
I'm aware of the Holodomor. As far as I'm concerned, Americans and the British allowed their bankers to create the conditions that produced it. Emma Goldman and John Reed were Americans rooting for the Bolsheviks. Americans had an obligation to police their international meddling. Without Schiff financing the Japs against the Russians in the 19th century Russo-Japan war, and without Leon Trotsky receiving $20 million in Schiff's gold to help finance the revolution, and without the pressures by the Anglo-French in the Crimea, the Czar would be in office today.
Is it better to encourage from a distance or take part directly in an atrocity? It would have been better if we had left well enough alone.
