--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 7/31/07 11:49:48 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Whether the surge "works" or > > not, I just want this damned war to be over soon, and for us as > > a country to recognize that it has solved nothing.:-) > > *Nobody* is "invested in failure" in Iraq. Of all the > right's calumnies, that is perhaps the most unspeakably > vile. > > It's the old "stab in the back" strategy, dragged out > and dressed up in an effort to excuse the failures > that have already occurred. > > Flanigan's sentence says it all Judy. He doesn't care if > it works. He just wants it over and for us to say it solved > nothing.
He wants us to RECOGNIZE that it solved nothing; that's already a fait accompli, and most Americans realize it by now. I'd add that it has not only solved nothing, it's created a vast mountain of new and significantly more dangerous problems. THAT is defeatism. It's no > stab in the back but a slap in the face, so drink your own > vile! Why couldn't flanigan have wished for it to be over > soon with a success? It's because success will show the > world never to trust the Democrats to follow through on > commitments. Success will show the Democrats to be > defeatists. As I said, the Democrats have way too much > invested in defeat. It has to happen for them to have any > power. You've just presented the "stab in the back" talking point very nicely, thank you.
