Matt Welch: How did McCain become the biggest advocate of boots on the ground?

John McCain is the most overexposed yet under-examined major figure in American politics. Dazzled by his biography, flattered by his attentions and unfazed by his failures, the national press corps has painted McCain as a preternatural straight talker, a politically unpredictable maverick whose heart is forever in the right place. Matt Welch, editor in chief of Reason magazine and author of McCain: The Myth of a Maverick, argues instead that the Arizona senator's interventionist politics, at home and abroad, actually flow from the same single source: He wants to restore your faith in the federal government, and in the "greater cause" of American exceptionalism. Unfortunately, it's the individual citizen--especially those who don't necessarily agree with McCain's militaristic conception of citizenship--who usually ends up suffering the consequences.

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[voxsingularis]

mmm ok, just take out the second sentence

[standj21]

You comment seems to point out Matt as a Democrat when in fact he's libertarian. also referred to as a "free thinker".

[voxsingularis]

that dude looks like a scientology drone

the Dems probably recruited him outside their office on sunset

Obama and Brzezinski/Soros/Rockefeller are going to be making more trouble than McCain would have. at least McCain didn't vote for FISA like Obama did, and Obama plans to use MORE executive powers, not less;

also McCain never said anything about mandatory civilian service.