What candidates claim they will stand for if they get elected, is mostly at best a wish and at worst a lie.
During his 2000 presidential campaign, Bush emphasized that his presidency would not be about nation building and that US had to be humble towards other nations and aim towards international coalitions.
We all know he lied – because he has already accepted the powerful backing of people whose interest he would represent in taking the US into wars for illegitimate reasons and without backing of the world.
However, even if campaign promises and presentations of themselves seem to exercise little constraints in breaking such later on, we can presume that going dead against and act bluntly in contradiction to them, would at least require a little extra thought and consideration than acting in ways that does not fly in the face of the expectations of the public.
Woodrow Wilson promised the American people that with him as a president they would be kept out of the wars of the world.
Only a few years later, he was devising ways to turn the public’s opinion into hatred and anger against the Germans so that he could join the allied nations in WWII.
Wilson did not have to sway the public to enter the war, but he did not want to loose more support than necessary by making himself a liar.
In the case of McCain, unlike in the case of Bush 2000, he has made quite clear what to expect if his will prevails.
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