Despite what the Republicans this year will tell you, there is nothing wrong with setting a goal and then revising or changing that goal as circumstances change. I’d like to think that intelligent people understand this.
For instance, I might tell a hospitalized patient, “I’d like to get you home by Friday.” That doesn’t mean I won’t send her Wednesday if she’s ready to go, or that I won’t keep her over the weekend if I’m still concerned about something, or that I won’t scrap my goal altogether if if catastrophic new events happen.
I also don’t understand why it’s so difficult to reconcile the ideas that we need more troops in Iraq right now and we’d like to bring them home sooner.
All this talk about “steely resolve” is like saying that the last thing you want to do when you’re driving down a curvy road is turn the steering wheel. You have to stay the course!
Well if common sense is disallowed in this debate, I guess I have nothing further to say. I’ve gotten mired in enough discussion on the level of “the meaning of ‘is’” to know that it’s going to go nowhere.
Well if common sense is disallowed in this debate, I guess I have nothing further to say. I’ve gotten mired in enough discussion on the level of “the meaning of ‘is’” to know that it’s going to go nowhere.
OK, folks, some questions. We invaded Iraq in March 2003. Kerry’s first term ends in January 2009 - just short of 6 years later.
During the run-up to war, did Bush so much as suggest to the American people that we might be there for anywhere near that long? (Hint: No.)
Did Bush expect from the beginning that we’d have to be there that long? If so, why did he hide this knowledge from the American people?
If he didn’t expect this sort of long-term involvement, then when is Bush going to level with us about what has gone so terribly wrong that we need to stay far longer than expected?
After North Korea announced it has nukes and are quite willing to use them if they don’t get what they want, the Bush administration decided to deploy fewer troops to the Demilitarized Zone.
Just as soon as your Brainiac-like intellect can explain to what infantrymen can do against nukes (other than die, that is), you’ll have a point. Of course, you’ll also have to explain why we moved some B-52s to Guam, and why some people think that taking out targets deep in the enemies rear is better suited to airpower (better yet, airpower that launches long-range cruise missles) than it is to a mech infantry brigade or two.
Come on. I know you can do it; I eagerly await your explanation!
We deployed a huge percentage of the Atlantic Navy fleet near Cuba when they had Russian nukes.
As far as I am concerned, if N. Korea is designated as an 'Axis of Evil", the president must act upon it at a sniff of N. Korean uranium from one of their spy sattelites.