Obama and McCain are both wrong

McCain and Obama are wrong because they operate from the imperial premise that virtually anything that goes on in the world is the business of the U.S. government.

McCain, whose hero is the belligerent nationalist Theodore Roosevelt, embraces a policy of confrontation with “our enemies” — i.e., foreign governments that have never threatened to attack the United States. . . .

Does that mean Obama’s policy of negotiation is the right one? No. Ironically, McCain asks the right question, “What should we talk about?” What indeed?