The enemy, by the way, defines success as, can they pull off a car bombing. If we ever allow ourselves to get in a position where it's "no car bombings, therefore we're successful," we've just handed these killers a great victory.
You know, Bob could be right, and so I'm loathe to try to think about it any more, but isn't that double-talk? Not to mention meaningless?
If we're in a position where it's "only some car bombings (or even one car bombing), therefore we're successful" - which he seems to be saying - doesn't that make for two winners and no loser? They think they win because they are able to pull off a car bombing, and we think we're successful because we've kept the car bombings to a minimal.
Oh! Maybe I do get it. Win-Win. And we thought he was incapable of thinking like that.
It seems to me he's saying that we both define success as "some" car bombings. This does nothing to dispell my belief that Bush and the terrorists are working together. Like I said, I'm afraid to try to think about it any more.
....but hey, you go ahead and do what you want....you will anyway.
I thought maybe he was trying to say if no car bombings is all we require to declare success and leave Iraq then they have won. But it still doesn't make any sense.
ReplyDeleteNote to self: like you expected him to make sense????
LaBelle
oh, yeah. but i was thinking of something he and general petraeus said in april:
ReplyDeleteCar bombs and other explosive devices have killed thousands of Iraqis in the past three years, but the administration doesn’t include them in the casualty counts it has been citing as evidence that the surge of additional U.S. forces is beginning to defuse tensions between Shiite and Sunni Muslims.
President Bush explained why in a television interview on Tuesday. “If the standard of success is no car bombings or suicide bombings, we have just handed those who commit suicide bombings a huge victory.”
“I don’t think you’re ever going to get rid of all the car bombs,” Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said this week. “Iraq is going to have to learn as did, say, Northern Ireland, to live with some degree of sensational attacks.”
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/26/764/
who could ever imagine what is in the mind of that man? all i know is whatever it is, it doesn't stick around long, but it can do a lot of damage in a short amount of time.