Four more years

By Creature

The "serious" Kenneth Pollack [NYT]:

In longer discussions on the subject, Mr. McCain often goes into greater specificity about the entities jockeying for control in Iraq. Some other analysts do not object to Mr. McCain’s portraying the insurgency (or multiple insurgencies) in Iraq as that of Al Qaeda. They say he is using a “perfectly reasonable catchall phrase” that, although it may be out of place in an academic setting, is acceptable on the campaign trail, a place that “does not lend itself to long-winded explanations of what we really are facing,” said Kenneth M. Pollack, research director at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.

See, lying and conflating is perfectly reasonable (especially when you have a war, a surge, a never-ending occupation to sell). Mission McSame accomplished.

(Cross-posted at State of the Day.)