This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Wednesday, May 21st, 2008.

I'm Caleb Brown.

John McCain's foreign policy is rooted in taking America's greatness around the globe.

That sounds like a neo-conservative ideal, that's because it is.

The NATO Institute for Foreign Policy analyst

Maloo innocent believes more people should know about McCain's long-standing push

for so-called rogue state rollback, arming and supporting

internal efforts and deposing regimes unpopular in Washington.

McCain's foreign policy over time has been quite a mixed bag. In the 1980s he was opposed to Ronald Reagan's deployment of Marines into Lebanon,

but he was for the increase in defense expenditures and for Reagan's deployment of forces to Central America.

In the 1990s, he was against the missions in Somalia, Haiti, and Bosnia, but then he later turned

for the war over Bosnia.

And then by the late 1990s, he was for regime change in Iraq

by signing the Iraq Liberation Act.

And then he had a policy called rogue state rollback,

which essentially would mean that the United States would support opposition forces and dissident groups in foreign countries,

odious foreign countries that would then overthrow their governments, similar to something like, say, the Bay of Pigs or President Bush 41's

exhortation for Shiites in southern Iraq to rebel against Saddam Hussein, which

actually failed.

So he actually picked up this policy again of rogue state

roll back in 2003, except criticizing President Bush's

leniency on North Korea.

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