Winning Iraq
Interesting story in The Atlantic.
Finds John McCain's statements on Iraq to echo his father's on Vietnam.
The elder McCain wanted the U.S. military to level with the public about losses, and to take steps to win the war.
Younger McCain thinks we can win in Iraq, and he's been push, the article says, for more disclosure of the problems there.
Here he is chastising a senior military official.
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By the beginning of 2007, his frustration was boiling over publicly. At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, he reprimanded Casey. “You will need to explain why your assessment of the situation in Iraq has differed so radically from that of most observers and why your predictions of future success have been so unrealistically rosy,” he said.
The Wars of John McCain by Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
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What I don't get is how this squares with McCain's 2007 stroll through a heavily protected market in Baghdad, in which he claimed life was getting back to normal there.