McCain and Iraq

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20061217/ai_n16898156/print


McCain is put into a situation where he will have to choose between abandoning his current recommendation on the war with Iraq or abandon his moral judgments that is the basis of his recommendation. McCain has said in the past that the US policy on Iraq should increase the number of US troops in Iraq in order to defeat them instead of the opposite happening and the US being defeated. Now McCain believes that his previous statement would be immoral because the projects in Iraq had gone from failure to further failure; nothing is being accomplished and this would not be good news to the troops. Therefore, McCain knows that sending more troops over to Iraq would be immoral. Some people are viewing him harder because he is changing his mind on how he feels about the war, but I think it is smart because he is reevaluating the way the war in changing.
The argument Will presents to try and make Romney, who is another possible nominee for the 2008 republican president vote, seem contradictory was weak because it did not follow the rest of the article. The paragraphs right before Will introduces Romney, he is talking about McCain’s opinion on the troubles that the US is having in Iraq. And then to compare them to each other, Will uses Romney’s opinion on gay rights. This is like comparing apples to oranges; there is no connection and cannot then say one is better than the other. One must compare apples to apples if one wants to make a strong argument, either for or against someone. Will starts out his article talking about McCain’s foreign policy and then just switches to talking about both McCain’s and Romney’s views on same-sex marriage and rights that each state can have on the issue. For a conclusion in the article, Will comes back to McCain and Iraq, which could leave the reader confused as to what exactly he is comparing: the two republican nominees, or social and foreign policy in the US.