# McCain wants to test foreign enemies **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 25, 2008, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555 "2008-10-25T20:50:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555/61 "2008-10-27T03:02:28Z")
> [@Captain\_Carrot](#): > > What else do you take ‘test’ to mean? He’s going to administer the SATs? Dude, the word we are talking about here is “enemies,” not “test.” Christ. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555/62 "2008-10-27T03:04:50Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Dude, the word we are talking about here is “enemies,” not “test.” Christ. My mistake, I missed the last few posts on the first page. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555/63 "2008-10-27T03:57:06Z")
## ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) A missile strike killed seven people Sunday at a compound in Pakistan’s northern tribal border region, a Pakistani military source said. The missiles hit the compound in the village of Badar in South Waziristan Sunday night, the source said. He did not want his name revealed because he is not authorized to speak to the media. North Waziristan is a region rife with Islamic extremists near the Afghan border. The source said the strike was suspected to be the work of an unmanned U.S. drone. Initial reports indicate that the targets included four people who had drawn outside of the oval, and three that refused to use a number two pencil. Early reports of a person failing to put their full name in the upper right hand corner of the test later turned out to be false. Military officials have said South Waziristan is the stronghold of Pakistani Taliban leader Beitullah Mehsud. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555/64 "2008-10-27T04:02:44Z")
[‘US Troops’ strike inside Syria](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7692153.stm) ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555/65 "2008-10-27T07:38:04Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > McCain was flipping Biden’s statement around. Do you think Biden was saying that North Korea would attack the US if Obama were president? I think he was saying that North Korea would provoke the US. And so McCain will provoke them instead. And indeed, I quite imagine a McCain Pentagon would be provocative towards almost everyone. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555/66 "2008-10-27T08:22:59Z")
Look, the man’s been tested, OK? Test me once, shame … on … …you? Test me twice… … Youcan’tgettestedagain. ! ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555/67 "2008-10-27T13:13:52Z")
“Undo Circumcision Damage - The Your-Skin Cone will make you supples and sensitive like uncut men TLCTugger . com” That’s the ad I just got at the bottom of this page. Jack Dean Tyler has taken over Google!! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555/68 "2008-10-27T13:40:43Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Come on. I’m not going to sit here and cut and paste from above in a thread that’s barely over a page. I was being hyperbolic with the Jan 21 thing, but lots of people above took McCain to mean that he would act provocatively toward states like North Korea. Ah, well, [there’s good reason to think so.](http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080324/dreyfuss) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555/69 "2008-10-27T13:43:20Z")
> [@5-HT](#): > > Even in my heavily libertarian days though, we all still hated objectivists. I’ve always wondered about that. Rand never supported the Libertarian Party, but I could never understand why not. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555.md?page=3)