When it comes to matters of war and peace, over the past decade no American political figure outside of Dick Cheney has been as egregiously and frequently wrong as John McCain. Yet despite his almost uninterrupted record of error on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, McCain's supposed national security expertise is taken for granted by both his party and the press.
So as he leads the Republican campaign against President Obama's "exit strategy" in Afghanistan, it's worth remembering that at almost every turn John McCain was consistently mistaken.