Steve Clemons at The Washington Note had a good description of McCain's approach to foreign policy:
... [T]here are the "realist" Republicans who worry that Mr McCain has been captured by neoconservative advisers, such as Randy Schuenemann, his chief foreign policy guru, who has helped shape the candidate's relatively hardline stance on Russia, Iran and other issues.
This has combined with Mr McCain's tendency to view foreign policy as a kind of "morality play" in which there are people who oppose America and people who do not, they say. Foreign policy was a key reason why Colin Powell, the former secretary of state, chose to endorse Mr Obama on Sunday.
"I don't know of anybody, anywhere other than John McCain who thinks Mikheil Saakashvili is a 'great leader' of Georgia - it is an absurd evaluation," said Dimitri Simes, head of the Nixon Centre in Washington. "John tends to see the world emotionally through characters he knows. And once he has decided who the good guys are and the bad guys are, then facts and context won't affect him."
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