To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain the last best hope of earth for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history.
John McCain: “To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced…”
On the recordOctober 16, 2017
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John McCain criticizes the abandonment of international leadership and the rise of nationalism.
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