McCain, the top Republican on theArmedServices Committee and a leading advocate of last year's troop increase, said theUnitedStates is no longer "staring into the abyss of defeat" as a result.
The Obama administration's top-priority plan to shutter the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, suffered another major setback in Congress last month as the House ArmedServices Committee approved by a unanimous 59-0 vote legislation that would prevent creation of a replacement prison in theUnitedStates.