Current Events > McCain slams 'half-baked, spurious nationalism'

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"To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain the last best hope of earth for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history," McCain said, to applause.

"We live in a land made of ideals, not blood and soil," he continued. "... We have done great good in the world. That leadership has had its costs, but we have become incomparably powerful and wealthy as we did."

He added: "We have a moral obligation to continue in our just cause, and we would bring more than shame on ourselves if we don't. We will not thrive in a world where our leadership and ideals are absent. We wouldn't deserve to."

President Donald Trump on Tuesday slapped at Sen. John McCain's condemnation the previous night of spurious nationalism, warning the Arizona Republican that "at some point I fight back and it wont be pretty.

Well its a shocker, the president told radio host Chris Plante in response to a question about McCains comments. Yeah, well I hear it and people have to be careful because at some point I fight back. You know, Im being very nice. Im being very, very nice. But at some point I fight back and it wont be pretty.

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