What's Important 24

Twenty-fourth in a series.

This one's straight from the McCain campaign: how he will balance the budget in four years:

It's pretty straightforward, as we win, costs will go down with a smaller footprint over time, and those savings will go to deficit reduction. It's really the logical extension of Senator McCain's position as articulated in the 2013 speech. Achieving success in Iraq would obviously lead to reduced expenditures on the effort.

So once we're not pouring money down the Iraq rat-hole, we'll somehow "save" enough to make up for all that we've wasted. "Pretty straightforward".

Okay.