McCain wants to stay in Iraq until no more Americans are getting killed, no matter how long it takes and how many Americans get killed achieving that goal--that is, the goal of not getting any more Americans killed. And once that goal is achieved, we'll stay.
-Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker
This quote is several months old but perhaps it's one of the best descriptions of the fundamental problem with McCain's Iraq strategy. It seems particularly apt as McCain claims the DNC is misrepresenting his desire for an endless presence in the Middle East in this ad.
But as you can see yourselves, the context of the quote, provided by Hertzberg, doesn't make it any better. Iraq is not going to become South Korea any time soon, and Americans don't want to wait around until it does just so we can spend another 100 years spending billions of dollars occupying the place, and continuing to rub salt in the wounds of Islamic nationalism.
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