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In a speech later today, John McCain will propose a new international organization he’s dubbed the League of Democracies. According to advance text of McCain’s remarks, McCain would have the group act when the UN doesn’t.

Sure, that’s just what conservatives have been pining for. A new global bureaucracy that will step in when the UN doesn’t. Given that the UN likes to intervene every time someone steals an extra packet of mustard from NYC hot dog vendor, where will the new LOD find room to operate? Paris anyone?

If McCain really wants to woo hardcore grassroots conservatives as he seeks the GOP nod, he’d be calling for the US to begin testing it’s missile defense capabilities over Turtle Bay on the east side of Manhattan.

EXCERPT:

…We should go further and start bringing democratic peoples and nations from around the world into one common organization, a worldwide League of Democracies. This would not be like the universal-membership – and failed — “League of Nations” of Woodrow Wilson but much more like what Theodore Roosevelt envisioned: like-minded nations working together in the cause of peace. The new League of Democracies would form the core of an international order of peace based on freedom. It could act where the UN fails to act, to relieve human suffering in places like Darfur. It could join to fight the AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa and fashion better policies to confront the crisis of our environment. It could provide unimpeded market access to those who share the values of economic and political freedom, an advantage no state-based system could attain. It could bring concerted pressure to bear on tyrants in Burma or Zimbabwe, with or without Moscow’s and Beijing’s approval. It could unite to impose sanctions on Iran and thwart its nuclear ambitions. It could provide support to struggling democracies in Ukraine and Serbia and help countries like Thailand back on the path to democracy…