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" Just shut up, please. Mr. McCain said that Mr. Obama is running a &amp;quot;cowardly administration that failed to give the Ukrainians weapons with which to defend themselves.&amp;quot; More guns. More war. That&amp;#039;s what we need. And, of course, we need the considered opinion of a former IRA bagma...er...supporter. &amp;quot;[W]e need more leadership from the president,&amp;quot; King, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, said on MSNBC. &amp;quot;He gave this a passing reference in his speech in Delaware, then went on to tell Joe Biden jokes and take the usual shots at Republicans - which is fair game, but not on this day - and then to go to New York and go to two fundraisers. I mean, I can&amp;#039;t imagine [former Presidents Dwight] Eisenhower or [John F.] Kennedy or [Ronald] Reagan doing that.&amp;quot; Nice of Congressman ni Houlihan to throw Reagan in there at the end. As Steve M. reminds us, when a similar situation arose, Reagan was not attending any fundraisers or making Joe Biden jokes because Reagan was fking asleep and they decided not to wake him. Thanks, Pete, for teeing that one up so sweetly. I often refer to the scene featuring the great character actor Philip Bosco, as a judge in the small upstate New York town that is the setting for the vastly underrated Paul Newman movie Nobody&amp;#039;s Fool. Newman is before the judge because he has punched a local cop -- played by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman -- and, in response, the cop had fired off a warning shot that frightened an old woman a few blocks over. Bosco listens to the story and then addresses the police chief. &amp;quot;You know my views on arming morons,&amp;quot; Bosco says. &amp;quot;If you arm one, you have to arm them all. Otherwise, it isn&amp;#039;t good sport.&amp;quot; It is becoming plain that the atrocity visited on the Malaysian jetliner is a direct result of arming morons. The New York Times obtained audiotape, allegedly from the people who shot down the plane, and these guys sound like they shouldn&amp;#039;t be trusted with a lemon zester, let alone a surface-to-air missile. And it is quite plain that the one thing this situation doesn&amp;#039;t need is to arm more morons, or to have another superpower come bungling in. Either by accident or by design -- and Josh Marshall is right to point out that, if it&amp;#039;s the former, that&amp;#039;s infinitely worse -- Vladimir Putin is responsible for a horrendous crime, and one that weakens his international standing. The only thing that would bail him out would be a flood of American arms to our own set of morons. The only thing that would bail him out would be if we all started listening to John McCain again. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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