...in so many words.  That is NOT an exact quote, but a paraphrase. :-)

Buried on page A15 of the Washington Post, is a scathing indictment of McCain's rhetoric on Russia by the columnist Ignatius.

The gist of the article is that McCain's 2006 rhetoric aimed at Russia, and his staunch support of the hothead Saakashvili, encouraged the leader of Georgia to be brash in dealing with its bearish neighbor.

The money quote:

McCain likes zingers. We've all seen that mischievous look ...It's one of his appealing qualities, but in this case it worries me. Zingers don't make good foreign policy. They embolden friends and provoke adversaries -- and in the Georgia crisis, that has proved to be a deadly combination.

And the summing paragraph of the column should be a campaign commercial in itself:

Now, after the Georgia war, McCain should learn that lesson: American leaders shouldn't make threats the country can't deliver or promises it isn't prepared to keep. The rhetoric of confrontation may make us feel good, but other people end up getting killed.

You can read the full column here.

I know, I know, Nazi comparisons are the sole property of the Republican Party and their minions, but please bear with me.

After being besieged with all the claims that John McCain dazzled the "Left Behind" crowd with his calls for war without end.  How he was oh so direct and pithy with  answers about incredibly difficult theological questions such as evil.  McCain's two word response"defeat it" lifted the Left Behinder's to their feet.  After all, who can argue with that?   Obambi's namby-pamby response about how the dissolution of evil is the purview of God just can't compare to the pure visceral, masculine appeal of "Give 'er Hell" McCain..  He sees the United States in Messianic terms crushing evil under it's omnipotent heel.  And just when you thought that Obama was "The One", McCain comes out of the shadows to claim that title to the adulation of the authoritarian crowd who thinks nuance is for pussies.

Someone needs to remind McCain that the U.S. is unable even to expel Russia from Georgia without resorting to a form of diplomatic begging.  That we've been reduced to the status of a Paper Tiger by the Messianic likes of George Bush and his disciple McCain.

And now to why I reference the evil Nazi bastard Mengele.  When Rick Warren asked the question about when human rights begin, McCain responds, "at the moment of conception."Oh, really!   Think about that for a moment.  Even the Vatican, as Andrew Sullivan deftly points out, doesn't go that far.

So, an embroyo in McCain's own words, is a human person entitled to all the rights and protections written in the Constitution.

A few minutes later, Warren asks McCain about stem cell research, and here's McCain's response: "For those of us in the pro life community, this has been a great struggle and a terrible dilemma because we're taught other obligations that we have as well.  I've come down on the side of stem cell research."

A great struggle and a terrible dilemma.  Why on Earth could there be Sturm und Drang  when confronted with the question of conducting medical research on live human babies in a petrie dish?

Paging Dr. Mengele, you have a recruit on line 1!