How does McCain plan to decrease urban crime? Implement a stronger sense of policy and urban planning? Adopt children and then lie about it? No, let’s NUKE THE CITIES. On Monday, Sen. McCain flowed some sweet poetry on the matter:

Sen. John McCain: “And some of those tactics, very frankly—you mention the war in Iraq—are somewhat 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.”

You CLAMP down? Shock and Awe 2k9? You “obliterate” and leave? How are criminals kept “under control?” Waterboard Watts?

It’s interesting how why McCain is comparing a fabulously tragic example of our military strategy in Iraq, and a prime example of foreign policy failure and and making a larger fool of himself by saying we should use these strategies in the United States.

It’s so easy to use overarching, broad military terms to describe how to battle crime. But where are the specifics? Where is the ingenuity, carefully crafted policy, and  the effort not to resort to guerrilla urban street-crime warfare? Why implement fear into a city’s residents rather than bottom-up change?

An interesting implementation of this idea is a recent story by Yahoo by the Italians:

Hundreds of soldiers were deployed Monday in cities across Italy as part of government measures to fight street crime.

In Rome, an initial 400 men and women were stationed at subway and railway stations and at an immigrant center, the Defense Ministry said……Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa dismissed criticism that the soldiers would scare residents, saying that instead they could help address citizens’ concerns on security. The people more likely to be afraid, he said, were “the thieves, the rapists, the criminals.”

Berlusconi has made law and order a priority after winning April elections on promises to crack down on crime.

Some critics say the deployments will end up militarizing the cities, while others bring up the opposite argument that a deployment of 3,000 soldiers is little more than a show.

Back to McCain. Prior to his winning remarks on Monday, he lauded New York City Dictator Mayor, and failed Republican presidential candidate, Rudy Giuliani for his crime fighting success in NYC. Ghouliani’s methods were questionably successful. His police force was at the center of several violent controversies involving black victims, and white police officers. Then there is the matter of what whether or not those statistics showing that crime in the city had dropped were accurate.

Somehow, McCain has come to the conclusion that military tactics in Iraq= SUCCESSFUL MODEL for crime-fighting. Please, we don’t need chants of “It’s McCain Time”

Listen to the story here..