"McCain's bleatings are either for domestic political consumption or self-satisfaction, a form of hip-shooting onanism that demonstrates why he would have been a foreign policy disaster had he been elected."—Joe Klein, on Senator John McCain's insistent criticism of President Obama's approach to the situation in Iran.
Last night, visiting with Larry King, Klein admonished McCain: "Be quiet. … What you're doing is a self-indulgence at this point. Senator McCain, if he's going to talk about this, should also talk about the fact that the United States supported Saddam Hussein in the Iran/Iraq war for eight years. Every one of those protesters out in the streets, every last one of them believes the United States supplied Saddam Hussein with the poison gas that has debilitated tens of thousands of Iranian men.... They blame us for identifying them as part of the Axis of Evil, with two countries that they disdain, the Iraqis and the North Koreans."
Insert your own "Even a Broken Clock is Right Twice a Day" quip here.
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