“I’ve helped bring about one of the most important changes of my lifetime,” McCain said, “and that is to reverse a losing strategy in Iraq, which would have entailed the loss of so much American treasure. And now we are succeeding.”
-John McCain

Is it just me or is this a completely unabashed reference to America's pillaging of Iraqi oil? Apparently Manifest Destiny has grown to include the natural resources of sovereign countries on the other side of the world.