Question for Candidate McCain: If the surge is "working," why aren't we safer?

General Patraeus himself admitted in Congressional testimony that he could not make a case that this policy in Iraq will make America safer:

Senator John Warner (R-VA), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and former Navy Secretary, asked Gen. Petraeus during testimony in September, “If we continue what you have laid before the Congress ... Does this make America safer?” General Petraeus responded, “Well sir, I don’t know.”

Patraeus quote from here.

Is that because Iraq is not now, and was not before the war, a real threat to the safety of Americans (except the ones we send to Iraq in uniform as occupiers)? Is that because the real threat to the safety of Americans was allowed to escape from Tora Bora, and important military and intelligence resources were prematurely taken out of Afghanistan in order to focus on the needless war in Iraq? Is it because America's ongoing occupation of Iraq has fuleled anti-Americanism and visceral hatred of us around the world, creating new enemies and fostering a supportive political climate for militant Islamists? And by supporting the unnecessary and counter-productive Iraq war as single-mindedly as you have, aren't you partly responsible for the fact that our families remain unsafe? If you are ready to claim credit for the surge, shouldn't you be ready to take credit for the larger consequences of the war you have supported so vehemently?