11/11/06
11/1/06
Andrew Sullivan and Bush
I think Rumsfeld was an overall positive, but lately his unwillingness to change is becoming a liability. The strategy isn't working as well as originally hoped (I don't think it's been a total loss). I think that in the long run, the current strategy will work, but it will take longer and bloodier than necessary (the country would have been more stabilized than what I think is happening).
The main problem with the situation is that you can't trust any of the party lines. The media sings it's doom and gloom song, and yet there is still progress (it's like the Japanese propaganda during WW2, if they keep winning victories, why do the battles keep moving closer to Japan?). The White House is much the same, that's total bullshit (it's a political operation so I wouldn't expect the truth anyway). Al Qaeda keeps gloating over 'glorious victories' which make no sense and when thought about rationally aren't really great victories (you killed 2 people this week, I've seen more deadly car accidents). Battlefield reports from bloggers/independent media are snapshots of small areas, and it's hard to expolate (sp?) a small town or section of a large city to the whole country.
The main problem with the situation is that you can't trust any of the party lines. The media sings it's doom and gloom song, and yet there is still progress (it's like the Japanese propaganda during WW2, if they keep winning victories, why do the battles keep moving closer to Japan?). The White House is much the same, that's total bullshit (it's a political operation so I wouldn't expect the truth anyway). Al Qaeda keeps gloating over 'glorious victories' which make no sense and when thought about rationally aren't really great victories (you killed 2 people this week, I've seen more deadly car accidents). Battlefield reports from bloggers/independent media are snapshots of small areas, and it's hard to expolate (sp?) a small town or section of a large city to the whole country.
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