A few words on Iraq
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Heidi commented:I've been thinking much the same thing over the din of this media bruhaha. Unfortunately, I can't think of a position to take that will both assuage my conscience and satisfy my practical impulses. I do know, however, that the peacenik yodeling at the Post Office on Liberty this evening as I walked back from the library just made me shake my head. "Get out now" seems just as facile a solution as "throw more (as you rightly point out, undereducated and unacculturated) troops in," and even more self-satisfying and righteous in some respects. ::sigh::on Thu Jan 11 20:26:29 2007 |
Anonymous commented: My father had a maxim for this sort of thing: Doing the same thing and expecting a different result is the textbook definition of insanity. Adding more troops to the mix is not a different strategy, just an extension of the current strategy. If they were going to use or train those troops in a new way, there might be some value in the effort. Unfortunately, that doesn't look to be the case, so your prognosis is most likely correct.on Fri Jan 12 09:21:17 2007 |
David commented: Ah, if only we could get both sides of the debate to yodel....on Thu Jan 18 10:09:07 2007 |