We're Succeeding Says McCain

Is "succeeding" the same as "losing?"

John McCain has been to Iraq eight times. On his most recent visit about a week or so ago, he looked around, listened to what the military told him and pronounced that "we are succeeding" and said that he wouldn't change the direction of our effort.

His Democratic opponents, says McCain, just don't understand what is happening in Iraq; they just don't see that Iraq is the "central battleground" in the fight against radical Islam. Obama and Clinton are naive and "dead wrong."

How does McCain know all this when on several occasions he provided evidence he didn't even know the difference between the Sunnis and the Shiites? Well, "I've seen the facts on the ground," opined the heroic senator.

That, of course, was the day after a roadside bomb killed four American soldiers and insurgent rockets blasted away in the U.S.-protected, supposedly-safe Green Zone, and another bunch of attacks killed 61 Iraqis across the country.

One of the definitions of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again when whatever it is you're doing doesn't work. Our leaders fit that definition very well. Now it appears that McCain wants to follow in their footsteps.

"Hup, two, three, four!"