What McCain Should Have Done

Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish  Jul 20 08

By Patrick Appel Abe Greenwald has a point: At some point, a viable exit is 16 months away....over the past few months, John McCain’s line on withdrawal should have gone something like this: “If at some point, this kind of... Full story...

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