McCain actually explained his 100 years statement. It being more like the South Korea thing. But Obama has stated he wouldn’t even have a base there. So that report of Sam Power is completely contradicting what he said.
If the media would get on this Obama will be painted as a flip-flop in no time.
Barak Obama:
“I do think it is important for us not only to protect our embassy,” he said, “but also to engage in counter-terrorism activities. We’ve seen progress against AQI [Al Qaida in Iraq] ... I think that we should have some strike capability.” (New York Times, November 2, 2007):
http://www.gulfnews.com/opinion/columns/region/10196217.html
Sam Power was his foreign policy advisor and as Obama is totally ignorant on the subject anything he says is meaningless and changes day to day.
What do you think the huge American embassy in the green zone? (Claimed to be the largest Embassy complex in the world)is but a base? How many troops will it take just to guard it let alone to carry out the counter-terror ops he specifies?