Joe Klein on McCain

Joe Klein has a short piece in Newsweekabout McCain how he is now losing on his one big strength: foreign policy.  His assertion that Obama “would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign.” was both nonsensical and was a surprising personal attack coming from the actual candidate.  It was probably a result of his frustration over losing ground on Iraq.  Klein explains:

In the end, both Obama and McCain seemed to have a piece of the truth about Iraq, but Obama’s truth was larger and more strategic. Obama had been right about the war in the first place. It was a disastrous idea, a phenomenal waste of lives and American credibility that diverted focus from our real enemy, al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. And Obama was right about the war now: the progress in Iraq was enabling a quicker withdrawal — a plan already hinted at by Bush. And Obama was right about the future: the Iraqis don’t want long-term U.S. bases on their territory, a McCain keystone and the source of his infamous comment about staying in Iraq for 100 years.

There are two things to keep in mind about the past week.  Not only is Obama factually more correct than McCain, but the media is also pushing the Obama argument now.  The media is making the point that McCain is losing on foreign policy, and that probably hurts McCain more than the fact that he is actually wrong on the issues.