John McCain was a war hero, if flawed: just like America
But consider: The United States did not want to enter either the first or the second world war. Was this “warmongering”? If so, we’re surely grateful.
The Vietnam war was hugely contentious in the US, not a popular adventure. As an Australian of a certain age, I was in the conscription ballot for Vietnam. I didn’t support the war, but would have gone because I saw it as a duty, as surely did McCain.
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In Iraq, the 1991 war was both justified and successful. But most agree that the 2003 war was a mistake, including McCain, who had the courage to admit that he’d been wrong to support it.
In Serbia, it was the US that helped stop the butchering of Muslim civilians in Kosovo. This brought peace and war criminals were indicted.
Peter Forsythe, Discovery Bay