Somehow this:
Pentagon May Suggest Short-Term Buildup Leading to Iraq Exit
reminds me of this:
“Our policy is BOTH a buildup AND a withdrawal!”
Sailboat
The ‘Go Long’ option seems the same old Stay the Course wishful thinking bullshit that founders on the fact there is no iraq army or police force. Just people we are arming and training to take part in a civil war on their various sides.
Even that old Unindicted War Criminal, Henry Kissinger isn’t hopeful.
There are several variations on the play, but the most common involves the quarterback handing off to a running back who then pretends to pass, but instead another back comes behind and snatches the ball in the middle of the passing motion (which is where the moniker comes from - the passing back is in the same position as the Statue of Liberty)
So what passes for US military strategy in Iraq is based on your Rugby for Sissies ‘sport’. 
Things are becoming so much clearer.
You know,* Monty Python* wasn’t funny Englishmen, they got all their ideas from the American. True fact, you could look it up.
I could, but then I would have to kill you.
There are three options here. Two have been rejected out of hand, and the other is really the same thing we’re already doing. Why did the Pentagon commission this group again?
To offer some sort of cover to the Bushivik plan of “Hang on grimly and pray for ponies”.
Of course, the next six months will be crucial.
Things will be turning the corner any moment now I’ve heard.
Don’t you mean shimmy, instead of shimmer?
Hey, he’s just like Cronkite in 68!
Yeah, but notice the “…in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support…” bit? We may lose, but it’ll just be the hippies’ and liberal media’s fault for undermining the war! This guy has learned nothing.