So John McCain is trying to pretend that Barack Obama has actually given up tactical information to the terrorists by Obama's general statement that if there was reliable intelligence about high-value targets in Pakistan, a la Osama Bin Laden, that he (Obama) might have to act and that strike without asking the Pakistani government.
In his their debate last Friday, McCain tried to make a big stink about it again, in his typically obnoxious, condescending, charm-free best, acting as if Obama had blown the cover on a delicate military operation in progress, rather than talking about general policy and strategy -- as McCain does regularly. Obama had one of his more pointed defenses of the night when he needled McCain for his bellicose statements, including the grotesque "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran" moment of shame.
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