McCain and Republican Foreign Policy

Jonathan Chait is mostly right about John McCain and wrong about the Republican Party:

The basic way to understand McCain is that neoconservative foreign policy is his ideological core. Everything else about his ideology can shift radically depending on his ambitions, circumstances, and whom he’s most angry with at any given moment. He favored immigration reform under George W. Bush, abandoned it to refashion himself as a “build the dang fence” border hawk, and, in the wake of last November, embraced it again. He fashioned himself as a modern Teddy Roosevelt environmentalist crusader during his anti-Bush phase, sponsored a cap and trade bill, but decided to run as a “drill here, drill now” conservative in 2008, abandoning his own cap and trade plan once ObamaAlex Kane

During the week they launched another document – Towards A United Ireland – setting out their vision of what it would look like and how unionists would be accommodated. Here are some of the suggestions:

• People who hold British citizenship continuing to hold such citizenship and having the right to pass this on to their children without prejudice to Irish citizenship.

• Constitutional recognition of the unique identity of Northern unionists and the British cultural identity of a significant number of people in the North of Ireland.

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• Expression being given to the relationship between unionists and the British