Not Too Important

Here is John McCain this morning on Today.



I won't even bother with the policy debate.

I simply have seldom seen such utter indifference to the impact of policy on real live human beings than I hear in McCain here. He doesn't hesitate for a moment to consign these poor troops to endless and repetitive deployments

in the name of what?

He who is supposed to be the most grounded in the hard realities of war. That's why people are supposed to trust him. That's his brand.

Yet instead his own suffering has made him indifferent to the situation of these troops. (Who could match him, after all?) Instead he echoes the lack of reflection of our other most recent cowboy President, and all the other Yellow Elephants, who are so comfortable sending other people's kids (and husbands and wives and fathers and mothers) off to die, who feel so easy spending lives like poker chips on some ridiculous geopolitical play.