Subject: [big campaign] Holbrooke on Afghanistan/Pakistan: McCain has never made clear what he believes
From: Adam Blickstein <[email-masked]>
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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:42:50 -0400
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Amb. Holbrooke on Afghanistan/Pakistan: <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=qb98kpcab.0.0.olnitxbab.0&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.democracyarsenal.org%2F2008%2F07%2Famb-holbrooke-o.html&id=preview>
McCain has never made clear what he believes <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=qb98kpcab.0.0.olnitxbab.0&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.democracyarsenal.org%2F2008%2F07%2Famb-holbrooke-o.html&id=preview>
Posted by Adam Blickstein

The National Security Network and the Center for American Progress Action Fund held a conference call today examining Sen. John McCain's record on and plan for Afghanistan with Amb. Richard Holbrooke, Larry Korb, and NSN President Rand Beers. The audio can be found here<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=qb98kpcab.0.0.olnitxbab.0&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.democracyarsenal.org%2Ffiles%2Fafghanistan_audio.mp3&id=preview>, and below are some quotes from the call:
"First of all, by now everyone recognizes that the Administration made a grievous miscalculation on Afghanistan, a combination of mismanagement miscalculation and simply bad implementation. Even the Administration has admitted it...Sen. Obama has called for two more brigades. Suddenly, Sen. McCain, who's never called for any, has tried to leapfrog him with three new brigades."

"What is absolutely critical is that the next President of the United States create a new strategy for the theater of war that you might call AfPak: Afghanistan and Pakistan...In order to do this, we have to have a very sophisticated mix of political, military and diplomatic strategies. None exists in the current Administration and Sen. McCain has never made clear what he believes. He has been very dismissive of this. Sen. Obama has laid out his positions much more clearly."
-Amb. Richard Holbrooke

I think it's great that Sen. McCain has recognized that we need more forces in Afghanistan, however he still has not made the transition to realize that you cannot put those forces into Afghanistan as long as you have significant numbers of troops in Iraq...I think if you go back and look at  the statements that Sen. McCain has made up until his most recent statement yesterday on Afghanistan, he has continually said that Afghanistan is going well and that Iraq was more important.
-Larry Korb, Center for American Progress Action Fund

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