Just Making Stuff Up

Some time ago, Barack Obama was laying out his argument for deploying more troops to Afghanistan, explaining that “We’ve got to get the job done there, and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there.” I go back-and-forth sometimes on the issue of whether sending more forces to Afghanistan is really advisable, and this certainly seems like the strongest argument in favor of the more troops position. It’s one John McCain at least says he agrees with. Says, that is, when his campaign isn’t slandering Obama by sending Sarah Palin out on the trail to accuse him of arguing that US forces “target and kill civilians in Afghanistan.”