You are right.. What McCain really said (and I like the man, but disagree with him on this) is that "who knows how long we'll be fighting this war, but when it is over we might still need troops (as in Korea) there for many many years".

Bottom line: he has no idea how to stop the fighting or what it will take to have our troops out of harms way.

But, as the leader of the free world: it was not well stated and not very comforting...

So, would we rather find a way to leave and keep (and our valued soldiers) America safe soon, or would we just prefer to continue to hope that some revelation occurs, for which we have no control and no measuring stick yet we remain until too much damage is done, or we wake up one day and an

unprecedented, never in history, miracle that no one can define has occurred??

Is that an accurate, and honest, assessment of where we are now?