[whadizit]

"...in the way of your celebration."

Oh, well, I can dream, can't I?

[gcruse]

I'm with you. Turning the situation back over to the velvet capitulation of the State Department fritters away the momentum and international political capital gained by the Defense Department. I think it was also a mistake to say we have no intention of any more military action in the foreseeable future. It is wasn't what you say, but what they assume that counts. Let the bad guys assume they need badly to cooperate; don't throw the stick away.