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Interventionist for decency. mark salter, mccain's long-time collaborator, describes mccain as a romantic about his causes and a cynic about the world. mccain's life had shown him the ease with which the powerful can punish and the cruelty with which they can do it. so he made it his purpose to give the afflicted hope and to use american power to try to tear down oppression. that commitment made him a hero, salter says, all over the world. >> there's a story we talk about in the book where he goes to berma and meets with three guys who had been political prisoners for 20 years, had just been r...