McCain's world view is of a jigsaw of adversarial maneuvers predicated on force. He was born to it, trained into it, pressured into by his upbirnging and traumatized into it so deep he cannot get out by his experiences in 'Nam and the validation they received from a "grateful nation".

I believe his thinking is canalized into militarism as the primary face of nationalism, and into nationalism as the sole face of patriotism, and patriotism as the only test of character.

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