WTH? McShame suggests using military-style invasions (surges) in inner cities?

[deminks]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/01/mccain-suggests-mil... /


McCain suggests military-style invasion modeled on the surge to control inner city crime.


Today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) spoke to the National Urban League, a group “devoted to empowering African Americans to enter the economic and social mainstream.” When an audience member asked him how he planned to reduce urban crime, McCain praised Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s efforts in New York Cirty before invoking the military’s tactics in Iraq as the model for crime-fighting:

MCCAIN: And some of those tactics — you mention the war in Iraq — are like that we use in the military. You go into neighborhoods, you clamp down, you provide a secure environment for the people that live there, and you make sure that the known criminals are kept under control. And you provide them with a stable environment and then they cooperate with law enforcement, etc, etc.

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He just can't get enough of surging, can he? He is surgtastic! (oh, plus you have to pay the insurgents enough to leave you alone.)