Commanders in the field, facts on the ground, telegraphing to the enemy, surge, surge, surge, it's succeeding, we're winning, come home in victory, not defeat. This is the litany of catch phrases being employed by McCain and his supporters to defuse any gains Obama might make on his trip to the central front in the McBush legacy of international failure. The surge worked, they tell us, which might not have happened if Obama had been making the decisions...
Well, let's not forget that the surge, which was really an expensive rescue operation (after the criminally inept prosecution of a tragically unnecessary invasion), would not have been necessary if Obama - or anyone but a salivating coven of bloodthirsty neocons - had been making the decisions. And opposition to the surge was never based on the prospects for its success or failure. Opposition to the surge was based on the prevailing consensus that none of the remaining possible outcomes in Iraq are worth another American life, limb, or dollar. So we don't give a shit, frankly, whether the surge has "worked." We just want someone who had the good sense to oppose this entire fiasco making decisions for a change.
So you can trot out the Joe Liebermans and Bobby Jindals and Lindsey Grahams to gloat pathetically that you were right all along, if by "right all along," you mean hopelessly chained to a cataclysmic American blunder and desperate to save face. Good luck with that.
Great comment. We are treated daily to misframing of events and their significance by both parties and the MSM. Your perspective won't cure that, of course, but it rings far truer than most of what I see out there.
Posted by: Brutus | July 24, 2008 at 03:00 PM
OT: another one right up the CP alley...
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=70549
Posted by: Big Don | July 25, 2008 at 02:29 PM