McCain Criticized for Too Hawkish Remarks about Russia
Past Sunday, quite a few U.S. senators counted Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., for too hawkish rhetoric in respect of Russia.
In the Sunday interview with CNN, Senator Richard Lugar, who is the deputy chairman of the U.S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, disagreed with McCain’s proposal to exclude Russia from G8. According to Lugar, the idea of having Russia disinvited from G8 isn’t very good, as they are currently endeavoring to bolster Russia’s business and create the banking and market systems together with the Russians.
Washington needs Moscow partnership in negotiations with the states striving for nuclear weapons of their own. Besides, the joint work with Russia to reduce the number of warheads aimed at the United States still continues, Lugar made clear.
Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh from Indiana counted the hawkish rhetoric of McCain in the interview with CBS. "If we were Georgians and the Russians were invading our country and killing our people, we'd be in a state of war. And clearly, that's not what we want," CBS quoted Bayh as saying when referring to McCain’s comment. "And John, sometimes, he's a good person, but he's a little bit given to this kind of bellicose rhetoric, which has a tendency to inflame conflicts rather than to diffuse them.”
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