History Records a Hundred Year War, But It Isn’t McCain’s

In case any of our readers are in doubt, McCain said nothing about the war in Iraq possibly continuing a hundred years. For the record, what he said is: “It’s fine with me and I hope it would be fine with you if we maintained a presence in a very volatile part of the world.”

But in politics, so the adage goes, “perception is reality.” Lest we be guilty of allowing a lying Left Media to determine our realities, it will be wise during this campaign, and ever after, to look twice at any tall tales they tell. As observed by Charles Krauthammer, Lenin said, “A lie told often enough becomes truth.” There is a concerted campaign to make the lie about what McCain said a perceived truth, as Krauthammer demonstrates.

There are things McCain favors that I vehemently oppose, but staying in Iraq as long as necessary is decidedly not one of them. We would be fools not to maintain a presence in Iraq. Nature abhors a vacuum but terrorists embrace them, wherever one appears.

Seventeen years after the Gulf War, we are still in Kuwait. We are still in Bosnia. We have had a presence in Japan for sixty years, Korea for fifty. By so doing, we have prevented other wars, other loss of American life and treasure. It is an investment in our national security and that of the world.