Maverick McCain Gets One Right

We give Sen. McCain a LOT of grief here on WMD...we're even a member site of the Blogs for McCain's Opponent alliance...but every now and then, we see a flash of why I originally supported McCain in the 2000 primaries (I know, remember, I voted for Clinton the first time too...it's a journey, not a destination!)>

Smith pointed out to the senator that if someone wanted to take a weapon in a backpack onto any subway in the U.S., there would be no way to stop it. So, he asked, how do we remedy this?

McCain said that there is more we can do at our ports and rail stations, "but the moral of the story is, you can't fight them here.

"You've got to go where they're bred, and that happens to be in these madrassahs that are funded by the Saudis, where the [terrorists] are taught to hate and destroy the West and everything we stand for.

"We've got to go where these terrorists breed ... in the Middle East, with the followers of extreme Islamic fundamentalism.

"We can take preventive measures, but the best way to prevent these attacks is to go after them where they breed."

I couldn't have said it better myself...