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Casca’s right

By lex, on June 28th, 2007

For those who don’t keep track of comments, this read by J.D. Johannes is well worth your time:

In his Senate-floor speech Monday, Senator Richard Lugar announced,

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June 28th, 2007 | Category: GWOT

9 comments to Casca’s right

  • Casca
    June 28, 2007 at 3:10 pm

    I’m a big fan of Johannes’ work, and his blog. Check it out. Go back and read his in-country stories. While you’re there, get his movie. It’s worth the money.

  • P-3W
    June 28, 2007 at 4:15 pm

    Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let’s scrap what’s just being given a chance to start working. Who cares if it hasn’t had time to bear fruit yet? Rip out that tree of Liberty — from Iraq and the US.

    Feh.

    Democrats — still trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Republicans — twisting in the wind to see which way to jump.

    (Pardon me — must be time for my nap now …)

  • yak
    June 28, 2007 at 4:22 pm

    Just a thought, but I fail to see how any of the four objectives can be met by us leaving.

    If you change “prevent” to “ensure” in all four objectives, you will get a much more accurate feel for what will ensue.

    Okay – you’d have to re-word #1 a little bit more …

  • djvc
    June 28, 2007 at 7:30 pm

    Anyone got this guy’s address? Someone should mail him a clue.

  • Daveg
    June 29, 2007 at 4:54 am

    The prospects that the current ‘surge’ strategy will succeed in the way originally envisioned by the president are very limited within the short period framed by our own domestic-policy debate.

    Well then, couldn’t we just re-frame “our own domestic-policy debate,” or is it now the case that our Congress is more entrenched and intractable than Al Queda?

    What a sad and deplorable condition to admit publicly, and worse, globally.

    That Lugar is a real pistol. (Ok, sorry about that, but I couyldn’t help myself)

  • Kris, in New England
    June 29, 2007 at 5:28 am

    DaveG: well said – “What a sad and deplorable condition to admit publicly, and worse, globally.”

    Why bother giving our guys a chance to even get this surge really rockin’ and rollin’? Hell, why not just recall them all now…why wait? They are so focused on declaring defeat that they’ll never see it’s about small victories and progress. What did these asshats expect – total annihilation of all threats in Iraq in 45 days or less? Now that would be nice, but I think most of us live in the real world, not the la la land of these sad excuses for politicians (oh wait, that’s an oxymoron isn’t it..).

  • Jim Collins
    June 29, 2007 at 6:04 am

    If you sent him a “clue” you would probably be arrested for sending a WMD through the mail.

  • SeniorD
    June 29, 2007 at 8:49 am

    Cap’n, et al,

    I fear we in this country not privileged to serve in the Armed Forces are doomed to forever be held in the thrall of a manipulative media and their syncophantic allies. Vietnam, a mis-managed affair at best, is the media’s Glory Days; whole reputations were made and built upon(see Dan Rather). Back then, intrepid reporters gleefully toed Uncle Walter’s belief this country had no business there. The casualty numbers were the tool used then to dissuade citizens supporting the war. Nowadays, good news coming out of Iraq is throttled by the media while every story approaching bad news is hyped.

    It is becoming apparent the media’s message is hitting home. Our professional politicians (an ever odious term), many of whom NEVER served, are tired of posturing FOR the struggle and prefer to posture AGAINST. One wonders if Lord Lugar is up for re-election next year.

    I’m still in favor of Heinlein’s idea of a Federal System.

  • Therapist1
    July 2, 2007 at 8:49 am

    It is an interesting strategy. Let us downsize and redeploy, thus creating a power vacuum next to one of the countries we hope to contain. They will not try to stabilize and influence that country in being more in line with their own interests. Hmmmmm, interesting. This man must go to church daily to have this kind of faith.
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