{"id":375318,"date":"2018-08-29T09:56:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T08:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/john-mccains-imperial-complex-dissident-voice\/"},"modified":"2018-08-29T09:56:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T08:56:21","slug":"john-mccains-imperial-complex-dissident-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/john-mccains-imperial-complex-dissident-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"John McCain\u2019s Imperial Complex | Dissident Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Obituaries are not the best places to identify faults unless they assume the form of a hatchet job.\u00a0 The opposite is more often the case: worshipful and respectful to the point of being cloying.\u00a0 As the tears dry, and the sobs of reflection pass, the figure transmogrifies.\u00a0 For a politician, aspects of the hero are sketched out, crumples and creases ironed.\u00a0 In the case of the late Senator John McCain, his role as sober, stable legislator were underscored in a world of Trumpland\u2019s narcissistic chaos.\u00a0 His five-year stint a prisoner of war in that brutal school of re-education \u201cHanoi Hilton\u201d constituted an important part of resume building in politics, and it was not forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>A drier eye would be more circumspect in looking at the senator from Arizona.\u00a0 Christopher Hitchens did not have much time for a person he regarded as a poor politician who never quite got over an inner gunpowder tendency to blow.\u00a0 \u201cHe combines the body of an ox with the brains of a gnat,\u201d he tartly observed in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/fighting_words\/2008\/04\/one_angry_man.html\">Slate<\/a><\/em> in a year the senator was contesting the presidency against Barack Obama.\u00a0 \u201cIndeed, if his brains were made of gunpowder and were to accidentally explode, the resulting bang would not even be enough to rearrange his hair.\u201d For Hitchens on McCain, the question was whether rage was of the generous sort, or an ungovernable one leading to instability.<\/p>\n<p>The case of McCain the erratic did not convince that other late scion of neoconservative enthusiasm, Charles&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/08\/john-mccains-imperial-complex\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obituaries are not the best places to identify faults unless they assume the form of a hatchet job.\u00a0 The opposite is more often the case: worshipful and respectful to the point of being cloying.\u00a0 As the tears dry, and the sobs of reflection pass, the figure transmogrifies.\u00a0 For a politician, aspects of the hero are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-375318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}