Tuesday, December 19, 2006
'Still does not have a defined mission'
No strategy, no extra troops. That's my guiding principle on whether to send more GIs to Iraq. They still have no strategy -- and so ... Found this quote from an administration official intriguing:
No strategy, no extra troops. That's my guiding principle on whether to send more GIs to Iraq. They still have no strategy -- and so ... Found this quote from an administration official intriguing:
"Advocates (of more troops) would say: 'Can you afford to wait? Can you afford to plan in the long term? What's the tipping point in that country? Do you have time to wait?'"That's exactly the type of rushed, breathless, 'gathering danger' mindset that got us in this mess. It's not a strategy. It's pure impulse.
