Like most REMF's Cheney was incredibly short sighted but Mcain is a real hypocrite, he should know that pulling a military force out of a theatre of occupation is a time consuming and in depth procedure. There is no way an enemy cannot see that we are pulling out and prepare for it. But as usual the Republicans are not responsible for the mess but they sure do not want to let the Democrates clean it up (?). But with Austrailia pulling out a year in advance hopefully NATO will get the idea that the Middle East is just a lost cause and join the Austrailians and hopefully OBama will decide to pull out early also.