As a follow-up to my earlier post today, here is a quote from
Kevin Drum's blog today about John McCain's alternate reality on Iraq. As usual, Drum says it better than I.
John McCain is now the Donald Sterling of foreign affairs: old,
angry, retrograde, and only barely in touch with the real world. This is
the same guy who declared Iraq safe after taking a carefully staged
stroll through a fruit market in Baghdad seven years ago, and he hasn't
been willing to engage with reality any more seriously ever since. He's
just sure that we had it won, that American troops had victory in their
grasp, and now it's all turned to ashes. And since the actual politics
of the region seem to be beyond him, all he can do is rage at President
Obama for somehow ruining his lovely pretend victory.
It's a little sad in a way, and perhaps sadder still that the media
continues to give him the means to keep embarrassing himself on national
TV. It's time to move on, guys.
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