John McCain: What Went Wrong?

[dmek25]

if you give the Iraqi security a time line on when the troops will be gone, it puts the pressure on them to be accountable for their own people. I'm a firm believer that people will usually react the way they are perceived. if you think someone cant handle something, and that is the expectation, then they probably will not. but if you expect someone to succeed, they will look at things alot differently
and I'm not sure why the cave reference is that silly. what do you think that bin laden is up to these days?

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by dmek25

if you give the Iraqi security a time line on when the troops will be gone, it puts the pressure on them to be accountable for their own people. I'm a firm believer that people will usually react the way they are perceived. if you think someone cant handle something, and that is the expectation, then they probably will not. but if you expect someone to succeed, they will look at things alot differently
and I'm not sure why the cave reference is that silly. what do you think that bin laden is up to these days?

I meant about terrorism ine general.

But as for Irag how does telling the enemy when we are going to stop a war with them make any sense? I mean did we tell Hitler, "Hey Adolph, we'll be gone by '46." It sounds dumb to me. Blast our performance all you want but the solution to Iraq isn't sometime dumb ass timeline. The solution is to do a better job which we can probably all agree Bush and his clan present dubious chances for.

And to say the Bin Laden is LIVING IN A CAVE and laughing at us is really over the top.