Maybe a hundred," Mr. McCain interjected, almost cavalierly. "We've been in South Korea. We've been in Japan for 60 years. We've been in South Korea for 50 years or so. That'd be fine with me as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed. Then it's fine with me.

This ain't south Korea or Japan. There was/is no organized insurgency in those countries. We have stayed in  those two countries by invitation and people are not shooting at us.

The Iraqi government is being propped up by US troops.  We aren't really there with the consent of the Iraqis and people are shooting at us. This sounds familiar. Very familiar.

The analogy McCain (and the GOP) is avoiding is Vietnam.

Once you realize that, if McCain does not understand the problem, then result will be 100 years in Iraq and therefore the criticism is correct. As for the NY Times, their reporting on the war has, in a word, sucked. They are in the tank with McCain as is most of the MSM.

McCain admits he doesn't understand economics, and he is either lying to us or doesn't understand the war. More of the Same McCain is an apt sobriquet.