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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (44900)9/6/2008 12:13:25 PM
From: puborectalis  Read Replies (2) of 224725
 
Curiously, for all his fighting words, there was one fight that Senator McCain forgot to mention Thursday. And that was Afghanistan. The country did not appear once in his speech. Nor did it appear in Sarah Palin’s speech on Wednesday, or in Joseph Lieberman’s the night before.

What are we to make of a fighting man who has forgotten a war? Who has forgotten, in fact, our principle war: the one against Al Qaeda, the terrorist force that attacked our country? In a 45-minute speech, John McCain did not mention Afghanistan because it is there that his choice to fight in Iraq had its most serious negative consequences. It’s in Afghanistan that the cost of pulling troops to fight in Iraq meant that we still have not found Osama bin Laden, or the rest of Al Qaeda’s senior leadership. It is in Afghanistan that veterans have been forced to patch metal on a pick-up truck to create some protection for themselves as they drive through mined canyons. It’s there that veterans have buried fellows who died to gain ground — and given up that ground days later, for lack of troops to hold it. Despite his own, moving service in war, it is in Afghanistan that Senator McCain has broken his trust with today’s armed services
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