Go find a dictionary, and find out what “victory” means.
It’s not too hard.
We win, they lose. Duh!
Defeat: We pull out and the Taliban take back over the country and provide a safe haven for Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations. They perform mass murder of everyone who even thought about democracy or freedom or even just living in peace.
Victory: We use overwhelming force to seal off the border with PAHKiSTAN and cut off the escape routes. We get the Pakistanis to work from the other side to squeeze them. Kill them all. (Pakistan is the bigger threat to fall into the wrong hands anyway because of the nukes.) We go into each region, get support from the tribal leaders, and unlease the full force of the US military to wipe out the Taliban. We then leave behind a force large enough to hold the area. Once an area is secured, we work on schools, roads and infrastructure to improve their quality of life. We train their young people to defend themselves. (A very large part of their population is under 25 years old. They don’t even remember the Soviet Occupation.) Make it like Israel, where they have to serve two years. Then on to the next region. Rinse. Repeat.
Now, that being said, that’s what would happen with a President Palin. With the current occupant of the White House, we’re probably going to unleash the full force of government bureaucrats to create impossible rules of engagement to insure that defeat happens.
I have to agree with Sarah. At least he sent some more troops. She did put a big IF at the end of her post. Putting a deadline was STUPID.
Why did the demand to “define victory” only come around in recent times?
I’ll tell you why. Because it makes no sense. It’s pure Alinskyism. The strategy is to simply un-define something into non-existence, hoping to lure useful idiots into joining the crowd with the illusion that asking the question “what is victory” somehow conveys a rare and profound wisdom.
Once the reality of victory is obscured, defeat can be ushered in. It’s part of the coward’s method of winning without having to fight.
Sorry, many of us still have common sense. This imagined, politically correct “wisdom” is in fact nothing but a lack of common sense.