When the forces of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) overran Mosul and Tikrit two months ago, I laid out “10 Lessons from Bush’s Fiasco in Iraq.” But like Spinal Tap, I should have gone to 11. I forgot to include one additional moral from Mesopotamia: John McCain got it all horribly wrong.
But McCain himself made it necessary to reissue the catalog of his catastrophes when he told CNN’s Candy Crowley this on Sunday:
“I predicted what was going to happen in Iraq. And I'm predicting to you now that if we pull everybody out of Afghanistan, not based on conditions, you will see that same movie again in Afghanistan.”That was a particularly galling statement for the Maverick to make. After all, from his decade-old declaration that the U.S. prevailed in Afghanistan and his predictions of a short Iraq war in which Americans would be "greeted as liberators" to his repeated declarations of "mission accomplished," certainty about finding weapons of mass destruction and confusion over Sunni and Shiite and so much more, John McCain has been shamefully - and disastrously - wrong at almost every turn.
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