Crooks and Liars

Thursday August 14, 2008 03:00 pm

McCain sees Georgian conflict as the 'first serious crisis' in post-Cold War era

By Steve Benen

Once in a while, the depth of John McCain’s foreign policy confusion stops being funny, and starts getting scary.

About a month ago, McCain said the war in Iraq is the “first major conflict since 9/11,” which seemed pretty odd given the war in Afghanistan.

But this is considerably worse.