Perhaps Senator McCain needs to increase his vitamin B intake which some believe helps slow memory loss in the aged.
From www.huffingtonpost.com
In a speech to a largely conservative audience on Wednesday, Sen. John McCain applauded President Obama's decision to add 17,000 troops to Afghanistan, but declared, ominously, that without a change in strategy the United States could lose the war in that country.
"In Afghanistan today, we are not winning," he said. "Let us not shy from the truth, but let us not be paralyzed by it either."
The only other possibility for McCain's seeming loss of memory might just be a bit of disingenuousness on his part. But I doubt a maverick like he would engage in such an obvious partisan ploy, do you? But it's got to be one or the other. How else could you explain the senator's seeming to forget a little thing called Iraq. (Which he was against before he was for it, btw.) But once Rove sat him down in the Oval Office while Junior was out trail biking, McCain saw the error of his ways and immediately slipped on his poodle skirt and grabbed his pompoms.
And without having to belabor how going into Iraq was a mistake and Bush's Folly, etc, etc (we all know it by heart by now), the most serious result of the Iraqi debacle was that it allowed for the Taliban and al Qaeda to regroup and rearm. So for five or more years, the war Bush thought we had won i.e. Afghanistan (maybe that's what the "Mission Accomplished" banner was for?), was in reality put on the back burner and the hunt for Osama bin Laden was replaced by the hunt for Saddam Hussein.
McCain's right though. We're not winning in Afghanistan for all the reasons previously cited. But whose fault is that? Not President Obama's. No it's McCain's and his fellow Bush/Cheney enablers in the Congress who are to blame. So now we will pack up our guns and tanks and bombs and planes and men and women and ship them to another deadly theater of war.
Oh, and Senator, you might want to consider the possibility that the 4200+ men and women who died in Iraq did die in vain for the sake of a sick ideology concocted in the warped minds of people like Wolfowitz, Perle, and Kristol. But you helped Senator...big time. So now you can add all the additional deaths which will occur in Afghanistan that never would have happened if you and others like you had had the courage of your convictions, which is to say balls, to stop Bush in his tracks. These future casualties will go on your side of the ledger as well.
But you'll probably won't rememeber what I just wrote.