A Humbled President and the Mesopotamian Morass
Read “A Humbled President” by Andrew Sullivan
“The American people deserve better from a war-president: more honesty, more candor, more realism. Even now; even in the face of the horror we have witnessed for four years; even in the face of the failure that is still staring at us, he still cannot see what he has done or what is still unfolding in the Mesopotamian morass. And he has no policy that effectively matches the crisis with adequate resources.”
“None of us wants to lose this war in Iraq; no one wants defeat.”
“It rips many of us apart to think of the pleasure that some vile human beings may draw temporarily from our retreat. But they gain far more pleasure by America’s permanent entrapment in a quicksand from which there is no escape and which has already replenished the ranks of the enemy.”
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September 14th, 2007 at 1:12 pmIt’s funny how you are talking in terms of “winning” or “losing.” Really, the US is so friggin’ huge, I never really thought there would be a contest. As far as winning and losing go, we are losing every day we are embroiled in the middle east. We lost the day we went to war.
September 14th, 2007 at 4:36 pm