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Win a War

Can we ask why, exactly, McCain knows how to win a war? And what wars he’s won in the past? And how does he square this...
October 2, 2008

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Can we ask why, exactly, McCain knows how to win a war? And what wars he’s won in the past?

And how does he square this ‘win’ talk with the reported wishes of Gen. Petraeus (one of the three wisest men McCain says he knows) that his staffers not use that kind of language.

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Clint Hendler is the managing editor of Mother Jones, and a former deputy editor of CJR.