[tet68]

At some point, the heads will need to come out of the sand

Most of them will be cut off at the neck before that
happens, but heck at least they won’t see it coming
like the rest of us.

[atc23]

Indeed. It will be at least another two years before IS can be rolled back, disarmed and slaughtered where they stand - by a great republican president!

/S

We've officially screwed the pooch

[utahagen]

“It’s not just us...it’s the French...” Oh, sure: the French will save us.

[marron]

This degree of reality-denial makes Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln look like a bunch of thirteen year-olds playing D&D.

Incoherent, this.

Anyway, most references to Bush's "Mission Accomplished" annoy me. The ship hung a banner congratulating themselves. Their mission was accomplished. And anyway, part one of the overall mission was indeed accomplished. We went in to topple a dictator, and he was toppled.

Congratulations, mission accomplished.

Of course, anyone who thought about it knew that this isn't the end of the story, there would have to be a protracted counterinsurgency, and an effort made to replace the dictator with something better. But the constant pounding about "mission accomplished" I always considered juvenile. The soldiers and sailors had just come off a victory. Let them have their moment.