"The real danger to the McCain crew in overusing the P.O.W. line so much that it’s a punch line is that it will give Obama an opening for critical questions:
"While McCain’s experience was heroic, did it create a worldview incapable of anticipating the limits to U.S. military power in Iraq? Did he fail to absorb the lessons of Vietnam, so that he is doomed to always want to refight it? Did his captivity inform a search-and-destroy, shoot-first-ask-questions-later, “We are all Georgians,” mentality?"
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McCain's response to the Georgian conflict is more about having highly-placed staffers who are also paid lobbyists for the Georgian government. As for whether his world view is irrevocably altered by his POW experience, I would think that it would be a natural result of the horrors he endured. Of course, I don't think his POW experience should be used by either camp, as either a positive or negative referendum on his ability to be a leader. I know in this day and age it's unrealistic to expect anything to be off-limits, but I think that experience should be kept private and personal.
Welcome to the blogging community, AMW! I only write about the Mets, so I rarely get a chance to argue about more weighty matters. "The Audacity of Enthusiasm" (stolen from your first post) would be an interesting title for a blog, though.
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