McCain paging Captain Ed: 16 months looks good to me
July 11 - Hot Air » ABC: Obama’s Iraq plan “almost impossible”
We can rotate troops out of Iraq on the kind of timetable Obama suggests, but we’d have to leave all of our heavy equipment in Iraq. Unless Obama plans some kind of nationwide garage sale, that would be a rather large loss for the American military in materiel as well as making our exit look more like Dunkirk.
Obviously, Obama didn’t have any awareness of logistics when he made this proposal — and that’s the point. His lack of experience, …
Wow. “Impossible .. leaving our heavy equipment in Iraq … Dunkirk.” Yikes. I particularly like the reference to Dunkirk, hearkening back to a hasty withdrawal even worse than the frequently-invoked helicopters leaving Saigon. And Obama’s 16-month proposal was evidence of his “lack of experience .. hubris” and general unfitness for command.
I am constrained by the inevitable counter-arguments to point out that there was nothing here about “conditions on the ground.” They were not mentioned. Being not mentioned, it was clearly implicit that “even if Iraqi security conditions permitted, there was a logistical problem as well.”
Now, two weeks later, McCain says 16 months looks pretty good.
July 26 - McCain Gives Qualified Endorsement to Iraq Timetable
First the Iraqi government gave Senator Barack Obama a boost by seeming to embrace his proposal for a 16-month timetable for withdrawing American troops from Iraq. Now could Senator John McCain, who built his candidacy in large part on his opposition to such a schedule, possibly be following suit?
“I think it’s a pretty good timetable,” Mr. McCain said Friday in an interview on “The Situation Room” on CNN, before adding that it should be based “on the conditions on the ground.”
Obviously, John McCain would rather lose a war in order to win an election, since he favors a timetable that is impossible, that would require us to leave our heavy equipment behind in an ignominous rout not seen since Dunkirk, that evidenced a candidate’s inexperience and hubris. Can America afford that risk?
(I hope it’s clear here that I am not really interested in beating up on my old friend Capt. Ed, in particular, but since HotAir is one of the few rightwing blogs I read, and those guys are prolific, I can usually find the points being made generally by right wing blogs over there. The totally transparent 180 degree turn of the right in general, and McCain, in particular, is the point.)
Electability
Good news for Captain Ed
I agree with John McCain
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Making S*** up or just confused?