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As expected, McCain offered a strong defense of continuing the surge strategy. He reiterated his disapproval of the Rumsfeld strategy pursued for nearly four years in Iraq, arguing "we have lost years to that strategy" but he stressed that we cannot recover our losses from that period. Now that we have a different strategy that is working, we have to give it more time.
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