Iraq
It’s been said before & it’s been said better. All the guys who were so famously and cripplingly wrong about Iraq on so many different points - they are still the ones calling the shots. They - President included - are the ones favoring a “Surge” of troops, in opposition to the Joint Chiefs, the Iraq Study group, the majority of Americans, and pretty much everybody else. It just blows my mind that they can be wrong so much, and still think they have all the answers when the people who at least got some things right are shouting “no! no! no!”
It’s just scary.
The President says he won’t hear of options that “mean defeat”, then he chooses the bloodiest available path to a continued, increasingly pyrrhic… defeat. When you are losing this badly, even getting out with your skin is a kind of victory - why not sieze on that?
I have come to the conclusion that since winning is impossible to define then so is losing.
Redefine victory and change your strategy.
What concerns me the most is the stubborness of the President. Early on it was called resolve. At this point I am starting to see it as maniacally suicidal.
Something is going to have to be done and it may involve a straight jacket.