That's the lesson from the bombing of the Parliament area today. If we cannot secure that, how can we secure anything? I know this is exactly the message al Qaeda wants to send. But it also happens to be true. How is it possible to have a functioning government and state when lawmakers can be murdered within the safest zone of the city? McCain's timing could not have been more poignant, could it?
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