Righteous Fatalism in the Age of Frenemies

Today Meacham wrote about what presidents read and what Obama and McCain read, and what that says about them. He stops short in his analysis of what it means that McCain is a "romantic fatalist" who thinks he is a Hemingway character (an American who goes to fight in the Spanish Civil War because it is the righteous thing to do). Some would probably say that this adds weight to the McCain-is-Churchill cult of neocon circle-jerkery. But a president who fights for what he believes is right and stands up to men he regards as bad, no matter what and regardless of consequences, would, in this day and age not be a Churchill or a Lincoln, but just some bastard who gets us all killed by trying to take on Russia and China and Iran and Syria and North Korea and half or more of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and assorted other countries, all at the same time, and either alone or with the help of a "League of Democracies," which is not a real organization, but rather an idea that McCain came up with and maverickly didn't think through whatsoever.* This is exactly what we need right now: a guy who loves to piss people off and doesn't give a fuck about the consequences.

*This also seems to be the most crackpot thing that he wasn't really pressed on during the campaign. Talk about naive, pie-in-the-sky bullshit. League of Democracies?