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December 20, 2006
Yow! The PILLSBURY DOUGHBOY is CRYING for an END to BURT REYNOLDS movies!!
Everyone is a-buzz about the Washington Post's interview with America's favorite pinhead, George Bush. The focus of this buzz is on Bush's version of "Yow! Are we winning yet?"
An interesting construct that General Pace uses is, "We're not winning, we're not losing."The title of the article is "U.S. Not Winning War in Iraq, Bush Says for 1st Time," highlighting the first part of the sentence. The 101st fighting keyboarders, who have fallen back somewhat from their blather-offensive about how great the war is, are now focusing on saving face with whatever positive spin they can wring out of... well, anything. "Blogs for War" (they sound like fun guys) says:
I actually find that statement to be pretty accurate. The current situation may seem intolerable to some but we’re nowhere near losing.Blog of War is an award-winning weblog that is, "part of the Library of Congress MINERVA permanent historical collection on the war in Iraq," so I'm going to assume that this isn't its best work. Perhaps, though, it is heralded for exemplifying the tragic chasm between reality and pro-war bloggers.
Whatever the case, I'd like to explore the ramifications of agreeing with the President. If we're not winning and we're not losing, then we are not moving towards any kind of end condition, positive or negative. So... does that mean we're going to keep treading blood water indefinitely? Or are we going to wait until there is an unmistakable outcome? If so, what outcome?
As comments to the "Blogs of War" post point out, the situation in Iraq is trending towards bad. If we aren't losing, we'll need to turn that around before we are losing. Rosy predictions from armchair pundits aren't going to help. Consider this post at Military.com — not a haven for anti-military hippies — claiming that pessimistic press coverage of a recent Pentagon report wasn't pessimistic enough.
Maybe it can be argued that we are not currently losing the war in Iraq, but there is abundant evidence that we are headed towards a loss. Sending more troops will solve nothing — note that Iraq reached it's "worst point this year" during Operation Together Forward, a military operation intended to secure Baghdad.
The remaining war cheerleaders don't seem to understand: it is possible for America to lose a war. Let's not prove that, OK? Time to get out of Iraq.
We now return to our 'round the clock "Zippy the Pinhead" commentary on "winning the war." The Preznit says, "I ... don't believe most Americans want us just to get out now." Actually only 32% of Americans want troops to stay indefinitely. Meanwhile, only 11% support sending more troops.
Hiccuping & trembling into the WASTE DUMPS of New Jersey like some drunken CABBAGE PATCH DOLL, coughing in line at FIORUCCI'S!!
Posted by Winston Smith at December 20, 2006 11:26 AM
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