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The Republican Iraq strategy broke my brain
By Ned | July 18, 2008
What the hell happened today? Up is down, black is white, McCain is scrabbling to appropriate and repurpose bits and pieces of Obama’s foreign policy. In other words, McCain wants to withdraw forces from Iraq and put them in Afghanistan.
But the two candidates still have totally different positions! See, Obama wants to retreat, based on an arbitrary time table, while the Bush administration is now in support of “a general time horizon” - the only word those two phrases have in common is “time!” And McCain says we won! By definition, you can’t retreat from a war you’ve won. Call it a “liberty exit.”
Seriously, this is giving me a headache. But you know what makes my head pound even more? This startling reversal comes on the same day that, via Dylan Matthews, McCain releases an attack ad accusing Obama of flip-flopping on foreign policy.
Anyone got any Advil?