Over on the home page, Sen. John McCain talks Afghanistan:

To foster success, McCain adds, President Obama must also take care to not sound flippant when speaking about withdrawal. Last week, Obama said he would not switch “off the lights” and close “the door behind us” come July 2011, the potential drawdown date he set last year. Obama’s lights-off rhetoric irks McCain. “Switch off the lights?” he asks, leaning forward. “What does that mean? Are you going to dim the lights? It’s just one of the most bizarre statements that I have ever heard a commander-in-chief make, and I’m disappointed by it.” McCain reckons that Obama is “trying to have it both ways” on Afghanistan. “He is trying to placate the Left, telling them we’re leaving, then he tells our friends and allies something a bit different, but he will not even use the term ‘conditions-based.’ It’s bewildering. These young people are out there doing these incredible things and the president will not say whether his decision will be conditions-based? That’s indecipherable. The Taliban and the people in the region, our friends and enemies, they don’t get the nuances. They’re getting a mixed message.” Despite Michael Steele, the GOP chairman, calling Afghanistan “a war of Obama’s choosing,” Republicans must be vigilant in supporting the war, the senator insists. “The role of the GOP has got to be that if we see a situation evolving where our friends are discouraged and our enemies encouraged, then we have to paint this situation in the strongest terms possible. That’s what I’ve been trying to do.”

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