Peak Senator McCain--or merely McCain's Pique?

This blog has long concerned itself with Senator McCain's flip-flops and misstatements. It is in the interest of consistency that I note that, for some appalling reason, Senator McCain has decided that the five Taliban (decrepit greybeards with going on a decade-plus of prison-mileage on them) were not merely the worst killers ever (in a world that has boasted Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot, no less) but that these fellows were actually behind 9/11.

Can we just all agree that is nonsense? Would it even make sense that those guys would still be alive today to trade if that were verifiably the case? Because I don't see it. I honestly think if we could connect those guys to 9/11, they would be ashes right now. Here's what has actually been said about them:

Retired Air Force Col. Morris Davis, who was the former top prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay, told MSNBC on Saturday that the prisoners released in exchanged for Bergdahl were so inconsequential that he did not even know who they were.

“My role as chief prosecutor was to review the information we had on the detainees to determine which ones we could potentially bring war crimes charges against,” Davis recalled. “When I saw the names of the five individuals, when they were reported last weekend, my first reaction was, ‘Who are they?’”

“I never saw the names before, which means there was not enough information to even make it on our list of potential prosecution,” he explained. “To trade five of them for a U.S. service member, in my estimation, and I’m often critical of President [Barack] Obama, I think they struck a pretty good deal.”

No, This Doesn't Make Sense to Me.

Some of Sgt. Bergdahl's hometown folks are confused--isn't having him home a big deal?  Why have so many people changed their minds so suddenly?  And they might well ask, does this seem like Swiftboating?

And if one reads conservative blogs, it seems like there are some people just shocked that anyone would suggest any such a thing. Oh, and Chris Matthews.

But as for me, I'm just saying when I see what looks like strategy, I think--"Huh, could this be strategy?" Yes, I acknowledge people he served with might feel some kind of way about whetever dodgy circumstances he got captured under. But opinions aren't facts. Not even if really lazy media personalities want to use opinion polls as their basis for deciding whether this POW exchange was the right thing to do.

I just don't understand why this is being politicized so much.