Is McCain Losing It ?

So now we hear McCain rant,  Russia must pay, Russia must pay, Russia must pay.  What world is he living in?

America faces a number of foreign policy problems.  There's North Korea.  There's Taiwan and China.  There's China declaring that the South China Seas beings to them.  There's Russia messing around in Ukraine, There's Crimea. There's the Syrian refugees.  There's the war on ISIS and on radical Islam.  And, on and on and on.  And, McCain wants to push it all aside with the idea that what Russia did when they hacked the DNC was our biggest problem.  What world is he living in?

Putin plays chess and McCain's focused on tidily winks.  Goal No. 1 for America is to have the nations of the world take America seriously.  Our reputation has been shredded by Obama's misbegotten policies.  The damage he's done will not heal overnight.  McCain's desperate cry of "Russia must pay" make us look pathetic.

We did nothing when Putin pulled chunks off of Georgia.  We did nothing when he took Crimea away from Ukraine.  As an American, it embarrasses me even to mention Obama's red lines.  And, how could we permit Assad to drop barrel bombs on innocent Syrians and not declare a no-fly zone.  (This was before the Russians had even entered the conflict on the side of Assad, a man we said, "must go.")   McCain now wishes to inconvenience the Russians?  What's he trying to accomplish?

The Russians and the Turks hammered out a truce covering that area of Syria in which they were most interested.  Note:  They did it without a whole lot of Russian boots on the ground.  Obama and Kerry weren't even invited to be a part of the negotiations in spite of America's involvement in the Syrian conflict.  But, McCain is now thinking he's going to punish the Russians?

And, what crime did the Russians commit for which McCain now wishes to punish them?  Hacking into the DNC?  Hacking is a part of life in this cyber age.  But, need I mention, that safeguards do exist.  Our military, as I understand it, is well aware of the threat of cyber attacks.  Banks, computer companies and other important segments of our country are aware of it.  And, they've worked to establish safeguards against it.  It seems the only ones who didn't take the threat seriously was the DNC.  Be that as it may, Hillary didn't lose because of the Russians exposing  her game.  But, really!  For her carelessness, she deserved to lose.

The latest chapter in this theater of the absurd is the hacking that is alleged to have taken place in power plants in Vermont.  Was any damage done?  No.  Did the Russians do it?  Maybe.  But each and everyone of our enemies with the ability to do this kind of hacking is going to try.  And probably already has.  They're not looking to do any damage at this time.  But in the event of war, destroying America's energy grid would become a prime objective.  America must stop waggling a finger, and instead begin to protect its grid system and other key portions of its infrastructure.