Last July, Newsweek's Michael Hirsh lamented the apparent collapse of John McCain's candidacy as illustrative of the "sad fact of political life in Washington" that Americans don't want former military people for presidents.  Last week, the same Hirsh ambushed McCain.Last July, Hirsh credited McCain for being "dead on in his analysis of what went wrong in Iraq."  "Now even McCain's fellow Republicans, frightened of the polls and Bush's Nixonian level of unpopularity, are insisting on success in an impossible nine months (by September, that is). That's a benchmark Gen. David Petraeus and others in the Iraq command realize is simply untenable.  The disparity between the timelines in Washington and Baghdad is now so huge that failure is all but foreordained." ("Foreordained"? Like by God?)The final magnanimous sentence of Hirsh's July piece on poor John McCain read:"Maybe we even ought to think about giving John McCain...(Read Full Post)