How about deconstructing this, from John McCain:
John McCain screwed up on Foreign Policy 101 AGAIN. Yesterday at the AP annual meeting, McCain said he would defer any decision to General Petraeus over whether troops should be shifted from Iraq to Afghanistan in order to intensify the search for Osama bin Laden. Only problem is that this is not Petraeus’s job, as he has stated before.
Oh wait, the President fired the guy whose job it was to make that decision.
And while we are on the subject of campaign gaffes, it seems I recall Sen McCain stating in a debate that he knew of no major military flag officer who felt that the war was harming US military readiness. So the question I would like to see the reporters ask the good Senator is:
1) Do you still believe that?
2) And if you do, how do you reconcile that with the recent statements by the CJCS, and the Army Vice Chief of Staff saying that prolonged deployment of troops to Iraq is in fact hurting military readiness?
Gen. Cody said that the “heavy deployments are inflicting ‘incredible stress’ on soldiers and families and that they pose ‘a significant risk’ to the nation’s all-volunteer military. ‘When the five-brigade surge went in, that took all the stroke out of the shock absorbers for the United States Army,’ Cody testified. ‘Our readiness is being consumed as fast as we build it. Lengthy and repeated deployments with insufficient recovery time have placed incredible stress on our soldiers and our families, testing the resolve of our all-volunteer force like never before.
That has to be at least as important as the fact that Obama does not wear a flag pin…………….