Poor Mr. Will is on a fruitless search for someone or something to blame for the state of endless war that, now, is a fact of our lives as Americans. Mr. Will is the bearer of the bad faith of Conservative Thinkers, who are constitutionally incapable of an utterly necessary self-critique. So he searches for the culprits everywhere, while never turning his critical eye where, if anything like political honesty resided, he might discover his own responsibility staring back at him. Here he names the culprit of the moment, as John McCain, the rudderless political opportunist, the pitiable has-been who mocks his own status as War Hero and Political Champion. Mr. McCain takes the role, in this essay, as the philosophical /political champion of Neo-Imperialism, as growing out of American Values. This is a dubious argument exploited by Mr. Will. He manages to garnish this monument to his dishonesty with apposite historical references, rendering this polemic as politically useful propaganda.
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