McCain Copies Obama's Ideas On Afghanistan

Who's the real foreign policy expert here?

Nearly an hour after Obama finished his D.C. speech, in which he repeated his call for "at least two additional combat brigades" to be sent to Afghanistan, McCain stepped to his podium across the country in New Mexico and tried to one-up his Democratic rival. As McCain's website now says, the Arizona Republican wants "at least three additional brigades" for the fight in Afghanistan.

But if Adm. Mullen can't find the troops to provide for a three-brigade increase in Afghanistan, how does McCain (who, unlike Obama, doesn't have plans to begin removing forces from Iraq)?

And what has happened in the last few days to provoke McCain to shift his months-long opposition to sending more U.S. soldiers to Afghanistan?

And it was only last week that McCain saw his opposition to timetables in Iraq become undermined by the Iraqi leadership itself, which agrees with Obama's declaration that we should start to leave.

McCain can bluster all he wants about how experienced he is. The fact remains that he has been wrong from day one, and is still playing catch-up to Obama on what should have been his strongest suit.