April 27, 2005

  • The Quagmire That Is Iraq
    (and the quacks in the mire that keep us there)


    According to Gen. Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the insurgency in Iraq, as of yesterday, is "about where it was a year ago," in terms of attacks. 


    Have you ever played chess?  Have you ever enjoyed a game of stalemate?


    Yet he maintains: "Almost any indicator you look at, the trends are up. So we're definitely winning..."


    Any indicator?  How about the forementioned level of insurgency in terms of attacks?


    Defense Secretary Rumsfeld with clarification to the rescue!


    "We're focusing a reasonable portion of our efforts at the present time not on counterinsurgency at all," he said. "We're focusing it on training Iraqi security forces in increasing amounts. So you can make a case that, gee, if the level's about the same, then the insurgency must be down because we're paying less attention to it and encouraging Iraqi security forces to pay greater attention."


    If it's the same, it must be down?!  Gee!!!  The secondary implication is that if it were 'up', it would be 'the same'!  But then... by re-application of the primary logic,  the secondary determination that it's 'the same', would mean it must be down!


    O Secretary, shed more light:


    "The United States and the coalition forces, in my personal view, will not be the thing that will defeat the insurgency....So therefore, winning or losing is not the issue for 'we', in my view, in the traditional, conventional context of using the word winning and losing in a war."


    Winning or losing is not an issue for us?? 


    Do you mind, O Secretary,  explaining to those that have lost loved ones that winning is not and has never been the issue? 


    Could you, O Secretary, be so forthright as to advise new miliatry recruits before they sign their lives away that: "You will fight.  You may die.  But it's not about winning or losing." ???


    Have you ever played chess?  Have you ever really enjoyed a game of stalemate? 

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