McCain called the Afghan campaign a failure.

Senator from Arizona John McCain has announced that the U.S. suffered a defeat in Afghanistan, the channel CNN. "In this war, if not win, you lose, but we are now in Afghanistan is not winning," - said the former presidential candidate of the Republican Party.
On Wednesday, McCain, the senior Republican in the Senate Committee on Armed Forces, spoke at the American Enterprise Institute - a conservative think tank in Washington. According to the Senator, the Americans prevail in the Afghan campaign up to the beginning of 2005. Later, due to the withdrawal of American troops and the ineffectiveness of the national government under the leadership of Hamid Karzai, the situation began to deteriorate.
McCain said that the situation in Afghanistan is not so dire as it was during the worst days in Iraq, but for four years, the number of attacks by militants has grown five-fold, and in 2008 was marked by a powerful burst of activity. According to the senator, while the Americans and are tired of the war in Afghanistan need to win, that this country does not again become a haven for terrorists from which Al-Qaeda carried out the attacks on the United States.
McCain endorsed Barak Obama plan to increase U.S. troops in Afghanistan to 17 thousand people, but warned that this is not enough. The senator believes that the strong success of further efforts are needed - both military and civilian. Specifically, McCain proposes to increase the number of Afghan forces are not up to 134 thousand people, as planned, and up to 160-200 thousand. Afghanistan also needs help in the strengthening of state institutions and creating economic alternatives to drug trafficking. Believes McCain, even if all this is done, the decision of the Afghan problem extend to several years.