...sort of like what the democrats do
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The left just can't give up on negativism and on the idea that we might actually win and do something right. They simply can't stand it.
They've got Vietnam stuck on auto-replay in their brains.
Well, at least they're balancing their reporting by including the pre-war documents information.
Well, if all the Iraqis with excessive tribal and sectarian loyalties reciprocally exterminated one another, it would finally become possible to turn the place into something more decent. There would even be some survivors left to populate it.
NYT: "Maybe we'll run the 'sectarian violence' stories on even days, and the 'generals against Rumsfeld' stories on odd days."
["Colonel Donahoe draws on the Balkans for an easy metaphor."
Yes, it is an easy metaphor.
I can think of a metaphor as well. How about confederate and union soldiers killing each other en masse at Antietam and Gettysburg.
"War is hell."
one big difference between Iraq and Bosnia: the adults are in charge now.
"Moktada is like Milosevic....He'll do anything to stay in power."
This is the muddled thinking that the Great Power brings to the ongoing war. It is a good example of "easy" thinking: meaning, stupid and facile. But the Great Power respects nothing, except its own power, and is continually scouring the hostile land looking for someone to demonize, whether it is a Castro, Ortega, or Chavez, or, yes, Milosevic; but not a Rios Mont, D'Aubisson, Izetbegovic, Tudjman, or Sharon. The Colonel draws on an easy hypocrisy.