McCain's Foolish Solution: Send More U.S. Troops to Iraq

The escalating war of words is evidence that the administration is preparing an attack on Iran:

The United States or other countries will one day be forced to consider pre-emptive action if Iran and North Korea continue to seek nuclear weapons, a senior U.S. government official said on Tuesday.

Notice the language:

"We, the United States, and others who might be threatened by these developments will have to look at how to respond and inevitably I think people will have to look at the question of pre-emption," the official told reporters.

Curious:

He was not saying that the United States was going to launch a pre-emptive strike "tomorrow", he said.

Not tomorrow. But what about the day after?

The rationalization:

"It's a challenge for the international community." He urged the world to think hard about the cost of allowing Iran to "continue to move down the road it's been on".

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And this idiot wants to be President?:

Senator John McCain is accustomed to staking out a lonely piece of ground, but on Iraq he is virtually an army of one. Nearly alone among major political figures in calling for an increase in American forces in Iraq, McCain is either taking a principled stand or a huge political gamble. Or both.

Here's the problem with McCain's thinking:

"He would just repeat the mistake of Vietnam," said Michael O'Hanlon, a military analyst at the Brookings Institution, a research organization in Washington. "If McCain refuses to acknowledge that some wars can become simply unwinnable, he may be exposing a weakness in his thinking that ultimately deprives him of the presidency."

Here's Abizaid's somewhat logical response to McCain's call for more troops:

"I believe more American forces prevent the Iraqis from doing more, taking more responsibility for their future," Abizaid said.