Rich Lowry posts a note from McCain adviser and Weekly Standard contributing editor Robert Kagan on the senator, the governor, and the surge. Here's a taste:
"Everyone who was fighting for the surge in the early months of last year - and that was not a very large number of people back then - was desperately looking around Republican ranks for support. Most Republicans on the Hill were quiet. Most conservative commentators were not working up any enthusiasm, to say the least. And aside from McCain, the leading Republican presidential candidates at the time were being careful. "
If you are, like me, a Kagan fan, a two-paragraph email like this only makes you more excited to read The Return of History and the End of Dreams.
