by The Nation

What is Senator John McCain smoking? The war in Iraq is a rapidly
disintegrating mess and McCain wants to send more US troops directly
into harm's way. "Without additional combat forces we will not win
this war," McCain said yesterday.

Has it not occurred to the presidential wannabe that America's
occupying presence might itself be fueling the insurgency?

In early August the US launched Operation Forward Together,
sending 12,000 additional troops into Baghdad to try and pacify
the city. It didn't work. Even Army Maj. Gen. William Caldwell
admitted that the operation "has not met our overall expectations
of sustaining a reduction in the levels of violence." In fact, the
bloodshed spiked upwards.

Why would sending more troops again, to Baghdad or the rest of the
country, produce any different result?

Moreover, where will the troops come from? The Weekly Standard's
subscription list? There's already a backdoor draft in this country,
with many soldiers on their third or fourth deployments. "Not a
single deployed US Army unit is battle ready," Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid said yesterday.

McCain is now calling himself a "common sense conservative." But on
Iraq, he’s full of you know what.

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