Memorial Day should not be a day for politics. It should be a time for all Americans to remember and honor the men and women in uniform who sacrificed - and still sacrifice - all to make our freedom possible.
And yet John McCain, a man whose own service in Vietnam deserves the respect and gratitude of his countrymen, chose this Memorial Day to put partisan politics first. His appearance at a rally in San Diego with Mitt Romney came 24 hours after McCain blasted President Obama's handling of the Syrian crisis on Fox News:
"It's really an abdication of everything that America stands for and believes in. And on Memorial Day, we should be especially moved by this incredible inaction and failure to assert American leadership."But McCain should have thought twice before branding the continuing carnage in Syria "a shameful episode in American history." After all, from his years-old declarations that the U.S. prevailed in Afghanistan and his predictions of a short Iraq war in which Americans would be "greeted as liberators" to his repeated declarations of "mission accomplished," certainty about finding weapons of mass destruction and so much more, John McCain has been shamefully - and disastrously - wrong at almost every turn.