Number 34: his ridiculous "League of Democracies (That I Approve Of)" is simply a non-starter. Who is going to decide who is a democracy? (John McCain?) Who is going to decide who gets in? (John McCain?) Would Pakistan qualify and Venezuela not? How about Thailand or Zimbabwe? (The Vatican's out for sure!)
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I'm fairly certain John McCain wouldn't be the one deciding who should be a member. The organization itself would decide that...democratically of course. And for the record, there have been very sincere efforts at setting the criteria. Here's one example...
http://www.demcoalition.org/pdf/CD_participation_criteria.pdf
Clearly defining democracy will never be an easy task, but world peace depends on it. So the effort needs to be made. The alternative is to mix dictators with democracies such as the UN is currently organized. That accomplishes very little and lacks international legitimacy.
Here's my own idea of how such an organization would look:
www.UnitedDemocraticNations.org
So you may not like McCain, but this particular idea shouldn't be dismissed so easily.
gary
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