Excellent NYT Sunday Magazine story describing, basically, an interview between the author and Senator McCain regarding the evolution of McCain's views on the War in Iraq and the differing views of his fellow Congressional Vietnam veterans. The headline, written in the plural ("Doctrines"), perhaps means to convey those evolutionary changes, but the article still disappoints in that it is so tightely restricted to discussions regarding the comparisons of the Vietnam and Iraq wars. McCain's stated "Doctrine(s)" reads more like a carefully prepared series of campaign statements rather than a frank and open exposure of McCain's DOCTRINE (?) about terrorism emanating rom the Mideast or how Iraq fits into the total picture there. It is no more a "doctrine" than it is an apologia from an adamant former sailor who seems to seek redress from the enemies in his past. NOTE THAT REFERENCE TO AFGHANISTAN IS ALMOST ENTIRELY ABSENT. It was there that the terrorists resided and planned their strike directly against the USA, not Iraq. McCain now conflates our responses to ANY terrorist attack with our invasion and occupation of Iraq. Neither McCain nor the interviewer has addressed the more general and far more crucial issue of "terrorist" activity (which the military refers to "insurgent", not nesessarily "terrorist" attacks within Iraq) anywhere in the MidEast. Hence, the new McCain campaign slogan "Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia". These McCain "doctrines" are missing a doctrine.