The Iron Chancellor of Germany ( Otto von Bismarck 1815–1898 ) said that you have to wait until a Political and Military situation develops and matures before acting.
He did not present the Social Laws in the Reichstag and he did not make war against Austria or France until many events happened before, even if urged by his friends and companions in the German Government. Abraham Lincoln did not sign the abolition of slavery on his first day in the Oval Office of the Presidency.
President Obama has waited his time in the Absurd American Wars in Muslim Countries and now the Political and Military Situation is developing as announced or advised by Bismarck.
President Obama is announcing the withdrawal of some troops in the next months ... Senators McCain and Graham do not want big drawdowns but very modest transfers of troops home. They have been Super Hawks all the time applauding the Violence and Deaths of Third Worlders or Muslims.
John McCain is shooting against Republican Doves that are tired of the Libya War and express hopes for good troop reductions in Iraq and Afghanistan - Michele Bachmann and other Republican candidates are in "Isolationism" according to McCain.
The Republican Party is becoming less Hawkish and more Dovish lately - Being Jingoist, Chauvinist and Hyper Nationalist is becoming less trendy in these preelection days - Perhaps as the presidential election approaches ( November 2012 ) many former Hawks want to present themselves as the leaders of "Bring Back our Troops".
People that voted in Congress the War Authorizations and Budgets are now in the opposite side, after ten years or more of squandering money and raising the anger of the Muslim World.
The "Drone Diplomacy" has shown to be very effective creating enemies and new "terrorists" in the destroyed villages, some of the poorest in the World.
POLITICO.COM
John McCain, Lindsey Graham fade on defense
By SCOTT WONG
June 20, 2011
John McCain, Lindsey Graham fade on defense
Some excerpts ;
Even within their own party, Republican Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham now have to shout to be heard.
It’s a stunning change for two men who have been the leading voices for their party’s interventionist vision on foreign policy and now find themselves on the periphery of a debate over the conflict in Libya that is reshaping the GOP’s stance on war and executive branch power.
Their staunch support of the effort conflicts with a chorus of leading Republicans: House Speaker John Boehner has threatened to pull funding for the Libya effort, Republican presidential hopefuls dug in during the national debate last week and several House Republicans even joined Democrats in filing a lawsuit against President Barack Obama for his decision to use force.
“In the foreign policy debate, realists are becoming a part of the Republican mainstream, and that makes Sen. McCain and Sen. Graham more than a little apprehensive,” said Dimitri Simes, president and chief executive of the Washington, D.C.-based think tank Center for the National Interest.
McCain and Graham’s new role as outsiders on Libya shows how their influence over the party’s once-defining stance on foreign policy — held for the past two decades — is slipping away as the Republican Party zeros in on spending and a public grows weary of the mounting death toll from a decade at war.
But McCain and Graham aren’t being co-opted. “Sen. Graham is speaking out. He’s going to continue to be who he is,” his spokesman, Kevin Bishop, said Monday.
Both senators took to the Sunday talk shows and issued apocalyptic warnings, saying the party’s turn to “isolationism” — a derogatory and disingenuous term in the eyes of tea party types — could lead to more terrorist attacks against the U.S., the mass murder of innocent civilians and even a spike in oil prices.
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