Ramesh Ponnuru reports that "senator [McCain] believes that al-Qaida would be running the country if we had done what the Democrats wanted to do six months ago."
It's a little unclear from the context which country McCain was talking about - the United States (extremely, extremely ridiculous) or Iraq (just extremely ridiculous). But either way, somebody should take it upon themselves to probe a little deeper. How, under any circumstances, could a group of several hundred, deeply unpopular terrorists overrun any country? And how should we treat other countries in the world that suffer the same scourge?
