The always upwardly-mobile Richard Holbrooke, who gambled quite a bit on Hillary Clinton (where he probably would have been Secretary of State), breaks his relative silence on the candidates with a featured essay in the ultra-sober Foreign Affairs magazine (The Corsair sips a spicy Port). In the article Holbrooke essentially backs Obama, and raps McCain on the knuckles with regards to Russia. From Foreign Affairs, September/October 2008:
"Both candidates have promised to strengthen U.S. relations with NATO allies. Both have expressed concern -- although in very different language -- over the recent behavior of Russia, especially in Georgia. (McCain has gone overboard, however, speaking in a highly confrontational manner and calling for the expulsion of Russia from the G-8, the group of highly industrialized states -- something that he surely knows would never be agreed to by the other six G-8 members and a bad idea in its own right.)"
Most foreign policy intellectuals -- including his pal Henry Kissinger -- think McCain is rather batshit with regards to Russia.
Holbrooke's (must read) essay here.
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