McCain's Living in Catch-22

I don't mean he's in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation, although that might be the case. No, what I mean is that McCain is viewing history in the same way the book was written: out of sequence. Hilzoy explains while filling in for Sully. The short explanation is that Johnny McStraighTalk is crediting the surge for enabling the Andbar Awakening when the reality is that the Anbar Awakening started months before the surge, the on site U.S. commander describes the tipping point as 4 months prior to the announcement of the surge, and his troops left Anbar before any surge troops arrived in Iraq.