McCain's Mirage

John McCain takes a brief walk on a Baghdad
street, surrounded by one hundred American
troops for protection, with military helicopters
flying above him for protection, and attacks
the media for not reporting the good news
about the surge?

Iraqi casualties are up in March.

American casualties remain extremely high.

Pro-Iranian insurgents lay low, in order for
American troops to kill their Sunni enemies.

The problem with the surge is the problem
with the failed Bush policy, which the surge
only escalates.

Our troops move in, casualties surge in other
places.

When our troops move out, casualties resume
once they have left. Unless the president and
John McCain expect our troops to be there
forever.

Net net, the groteseque status quo continues,
and John McCain attacks the press for not
reporting the good news about Iraq?

This is the politics of delusion, mixed with the
politics of deceit. Wishful thinking, fiction, the
politics of mirage.

Meanwhile the death continues, the failure goes
on. Nothing will change until the failed policy
is changed, not escalated.

McCain's mirage is more of the same.