McCain's recent campaign interview was somewhat shrill:

""He really has no experience or knowledge or judgment about the issue of Iraq and he has wanted to surrender for a long time,"

If you are peddling an unpopular position that is rejected by 60% of the population it is probably best not to use the condescending tone that McCain's PR handlers have him adopt here.

They think they can get away with it on account of McCain's military career. But McCain's military career was based on personal courage and family connections, not a grasp of military strategy. McCain graduated second from bottom in his class. He was never on track to become an Admiral and only made Captain on the basis of his war service record. Pilots who lose two planes in peace time don't get to fly a third.

Besides which, his personal record of judgment on Iraq is
comically bad. He strutted around a Baghdad market in a bullet proof vest surrounded by over a hundred troops an pronounce the conditions 'normal'. He then opined that Petraeus tours Iraq without armored transport only to be contradicted by a statement that Petraeus never leaves the green zone except in an up-armored humvee at a minimum.

In fact given McCain's record of making optimistic statements on Iraq that have proved to be false hopes it is hard to see how he considers himself in a position to 'educate' anyone on matters in Iraq. He can't even keep the factions straight or understand the dynamics of the thousand plus year old Sunni-Shia divide.