With his hawkish voting record and verbal rebukes against America's less reluctant allies, is McCain the unifier that can bring the free world together?  No way.  McCain's foreign policy and international outlook is misguided and frankly, impossible.

Outside The Beltway has a great summary of why this won't work (even if McCain was capable of creating it in the first place):

There’s a real danger of forming an organization like McCain proposes, because it’s pretty much going to guarantee that large economic powers that don’t fit the membership criteria are probably going to form some sort of alliance to oppose it

Reason focuses in on why McCain isn't the one to pull off such an organization:  his hawkish record, his rebukes of nations who haven't followed our lead militarily, and the simple fact that he's associated with a government and political party that has done much to erode our international good-will.  Who is going to suddenly sign up for a new international coalition under a Republican president?   

Here is what I think:  

McCain's policy and the analysis misses an even more fundamental point.  Such a "League of Democracies" admits that the U.N. doesn't benefit our interests, and even NATO doesn't accomplish what McCain or the interventionists would like.

If the U.N. cannot promote democracy effectively, and if NATO can no longer provide tactical and strategic cooperation among democratic and representative militaries, how would another organization accomplish the goal without extremely restrictive membership?  To accomplish McCain's apparent goal, only like-minded nations walking in step with America's foreign policy could be invited.  Is this really any different than Bush's "coalition of the willing?" 

Consider again Alex Knapp's point from Outside the Beltway - and consider the need for restrictive membership to accomplish specific goals.  Such a plan, even if enacted, could result in a massive alliance against the few like-minded member states.   

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