The NY Times ran a very telling article today on the nature of violence in Iraq. It shows, once again, that McCain is consistently wrong in his foreign policy assessments.
Here's the money quote:
Although the "surge" is often described as the turning point that led to lower violence, a number of America officers contend the Awakening that began well before the surge ... was the most significant reason for the decline.
Got that? Sound familiar? That's exactly what Barack was saying during his Mideast trip.
Once again, Barack, in his studied careful way, gets it right. McShame and Republican media gets it wrong.
This is the pattern of the entire political season. Barack is thoughtful and carefully reaches the correct conclusion. His opponents are wrong. But they mock Barack's brilliance as only indicators of a "young man's inexperience." Is that boorish or what? They just don't learn.
Barack's opponents start wrong, and then they continue to be wrong even after they have the advantage of hearing Barack's correct insight. That, my friends, is boorish stupidity in action.
The pundits like to say that this election is a referendum on Barack. I feel this election is a referendum not on Barack, but on our Nation. If we as a Nation pick someone so simplistic and so treacherously wrong as McCain when we have someone like Barack as an alternative, then I am going to blush with shame at how stupid my dearly loved country (and I do dearly love it, for all its flaws) continues to be. And I am going to have to spend still more days of my adult life not being really proud of my country. Hopefully it will not come to that, and I can feel proud.