One more thing about McCain’s response to the Audacity of Hype

At the end of John McCain’s response to the Barack Obama’s temper tantrum was one paragraph that deserved a post all by itself (NRO - The Corner, emphasis added):

In his victory speech this week, Senator Obama stated that ‘wisdom’ is meeting with our enemies, including  Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, North Korea’s Kim Jong Il, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Cuba’s Raul Castro. John McCain couldn’t disagree more. Rather than giving tyrants and dictators the prestige of meeting with an American president, John McCain will instead meet with the champions of human freedom around the world and opposition leaders fighting for liberty.

This is a very big deal, especially for folks like the Movement for Democratic Change in Zimbabwe, the resistance to Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, or dissidents in Communist China. 

It is also exactly the kind of contrast McCain needs in the general election.  Obama’s foreign policy has devolved into the Carter model: be nice to our enemies, assume the inevitability of their existence, and pay no attention to their victims.  In response to Obama’s Carterite model, McCain has responded with a Reaganesque emphasis on freedom and recognizing those who fight for it against the tyrants in their midst.

As someone who has an entire blog dedicated to the battle for freedom in China, this is of special importance to me, but it is also a sign that McCain understands that in the WBK War, the oppressed people of Iran and Syria can be just helpful to us as the people of Eastern Europe were in the 1980s.  Obama, by contrast, either has not learned that lesson or simply is not interested in winning the war.