Walter Ballin

In this article http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/07/04/mcain_vietnam/index.html(If the link doesn't work, you may copy it and paste it into your web browser) John McCain was quoted as saying "Like a lot of Vietnam veterans, I believed and still believe that the war was winnable," and "I do not believe that it was winnable at an acceptable cost in the short or probably even the long term using the strategy of attrition which we employed there to such tragic results. I do believe that had we taken the war to the North and made full, consistent use of air power in the North, we ultimately would have prevailed." McCain goes on to say ""We lost in Vietnam because we lost the will to fight, because we did not understand the nature of the war we were fighting, and because we limited the tools at our disposal." This all from a man who dropped bombs on Vietnamese people from thousands of feet up in the air, and who in response to a question about Iran sarcastically took some lyrics from a Beach Boys song and sang "Bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran!" Many people who fight wars on the ground see the suffering of the people from war. People like McCain who dropped bombs on people from thousands of feet up in the air, didn't see and don't see now this suffering and the damage that they cause. So, it's easy for McCain to say that not enough was done to "win" what was an unwinnable war, and that more bombs should have been dropped and to advocate attacking Iran.