Speaking to the Veterans of Foreign Wars yesterday, John McCain slammed Barack Obama as not “willing to heed the guidance of General Petraeus, or to listen to our troops on the ground when they say — as they have said to me on my trips to Iraq: ‘Let us win, just let us win.’”
The following question has been mooted often enough in the liberal blogosphere, but we’re still really owed an answer — what does “winning” mean to McCain in the context of Iraq? If he’s going to put his determination to win at the center of his Iraq policy, he really ought to explain how we’re going to be able to tell when and whether this has happened.
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