Cut & run

This WSJ guy compares McCain & Obama -- and finds McCain much better. Of course. But here's a little nugget which will fly by the McCain sycophants, but not by a heard-headed Romney-Nader-L. Ron Hubbard curmudgeon:

On Oct. 14, 1993, John McCain took to the floor of the United States Senate to offer what, in light of his past history and his later positions, was an unusual amendment.

Earlier that month, 19 American soldiers had been ambushed and killed in Mogadishu, Somalia, by militiamen connected to warlord Mohamed Farah Aidid. The corpse of one U.S. serviceman had been humiliatingly dragged through the streets. The Arizona Republican wanted U.S. forces out of Somalia -- and was prepared to cut off funds for the mission if the administration refused to expedite a withdrawal. President Clinton attacked the amendment as a "headlong rush into isolationism."

Hmmm... Maybe Bubba had a semi-point, after all? So what does McCain have to say about that craven surrender to Islam Militant that he was pushing for way back when?

As for Somalia, Mr. McCain noted in one of his memoirs that "The decision to leave Aidid unpunished and to withdraw from Somalia had a disheartening effect on our military. . . . They wondered if we would ever be as committed to victory as they were in the causes we ordered them to serve. Somewhere in Sudan, Osama bin Laden observed our withdrawal from Somalia and concluded that America no longer had the stomach for war."

Precisely. And Bubba bears a huge responsibility for letting AQ rise unchecked throughout the 1990s. How about McCain? What was he doing in 1993 about that? Hmmm....