The Stockholm Syndrome

As I understand it, the Stockholm syndrome has to do with a captive becoming increasingly sympathetic to his captors. The prisoner starts to identify and empathize with his jailor, so to speak. This syndrome was named after an incident in Stockholm in 1973 when some hostages actually started to take up the cause for the bank-robbers who had taken them captive. I think that anyone in fear of his life would try to climb into the captor's mindset to see things from the captor's point of view. But to start empathizing with that point of view??
I think Senator John McCain and Max Cleland must be suffering from Stockholm syndrome. Why else would they hold such a soft view toward our country's enemies? Dear God! I loved what Zell Miller had to say at the Republican convention! (Oh, is it in style again to be proud of America? Really? Ofrabjousday!) To want to kill those who want to kill you and yours is not PC today. I'm surprised someone didn't offer Zell a free anger management course. But that glorious man proved what a real man is--someone who wants to protect and defend what is his--his God, his country, his family.
What's with John McCain? Is he just confused or is he just playing politician? Inquiring minds haven't a clue, apparently. Is he a fencesitter? No, I think he is a bonafide Stockholmer. Someone who had a transformation during captivity in North Viet Nam. (All the fight, the spleen was taken out of these men. Not all the POW's, but some.) There seems to be nothing noble about McCain or Cleland. They seem petty. And what's worse--they seem calculating.