John McCain’s infamous “100 years” comment was about maintaining US military presence in Iraq–not fighting there for 100 years. Democrats are misleadingly hammering McCain for saying this.
Hillary Clinton took a bigger post Wrightroversy popularity hit than her rival. This may be because her campaign gives the impression of doing anything it takes to win.
British conservatives (like David Cameron and Iain Duncan Smith) are using thinktanks to come up with effective conservative policies and positions. John McCain could learn from them.
- 3/28 Wrap: Kraut may have a point on the McCain slip. Still, I fail to see how staying in a Middle Eastern country for 100 years is “serious” policy solution. Krauthammer uses Kuwait as an example, but fails to mention that the state is really more oil tanker than country (2 million of the 3.5 million residents are non-nationals). Also, the Germany and Japan comparisons leave me cold. Both were homogeneous, militarily powerful, capitalists. Germany and Japan also had 99 percent literacy rates, Iraq currently hovers around 50. Let this be a lesson to war cheerleaders everywhere: Iraq is not similar to any of these three countries and such bad historical analogy making can only lead us to further disaster. So will partisan, intellectually dishonest think tanks (I’m looking at you, Gerson!), but that’s a different matter for a different day.
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