Responding to McCain campaign adviser Charlie Black’s recent statement that a terrorist attack on U.S. soil would be “a big advantage” (Fortune) to Sen. John McCain’s candidacy, reader Tom Cheung writes:

Is Charlie Black really sure that another terrorist attack on the United States before November would help John McCain’s chances in the general election? Would another terrorist attack on the United States not affirm Barack Obama’s position that the Iraq war has not made America safer and that the Iraq war has caused the United States to take its eye off the ball in Afghanistan? Would another terrorist attack on the United States not contradict John McCain’s rationale that keeping American troops in Iraq for many more years would keep America safer?

Tom Cheung

Toronto, Canada