The Spain drama increases. As you may know by know, McCain foreign policy honcho Randy Sheunemann said earlier today that yes, McCain did mean to diss Zapatero. From the Washington Post's report:
"The questioner asked several times about Senator McCain's willingness to meet Zapatero (and id'd him in the question so there is no doubt Senator McCain knew exactly to whom the question referred). Senator McCain refused to commit to a White House meeting with President Zapatero in this interview," he said in an e-mail.
Interesting. In all likelihood not true of course -- it seems manifestly clear that McCain was confused and didn't know who his questioner was talking about. Especially since McCain himself said back in the spring that "this is the moment to leave behind discrepancies with Spain." Of course, he said that to El Pais. Not that he panders or anything! He's a war hero, remember -- whatever could you be thinking?!
But now that Sheunemann has said this, it doesn't matter; this is, until McCain says otherwise, his official position. No meeting, or at least no White House meeting, with a NATO ally that still has about 1,000 soldiers in Afghanistan.
