Comments on: A Short Memory Makes for a Long Whine http://www.sundriesshack.com/2007/09/26/a-short-memory-makes-for-a-long-whine/ Delivering the Best of the New Media Since 2004. Tue, 22 May 2012 22:10:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Steve M.http://www.sundriesshack.com/2007/09/26/a-short-memory-makes-for-a-long-whine/comment-page-1/#comment-548427 Steve M. Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:47:07 +0000 http://www.sundriesshack.com/?p=3368#comment-548427 <i> The grown-ups have a war to win here.</i> What grown-ups? The ones who never had a plan to secure the peace, who let the looting happen and the multiple insurgencies rise up without changing strategy for years, who kept troop levels too low and now couldn't possibly get them high enough to run an effective counterinsurgency <i>according to General Petraeus's own formula</i> regarding how many troops you need per x number of citizens, because the military is broken? War to win? Your tin god Bush guaranteed defeat years ago. The grown-ups have a war to win here.

What grown-ups? The ones who never had a plan to secure the peace, who let the looting happen and the multiple insurgencies rise up without changing strategy for years, who kept troop levels too low and now couldn't possibly get them high enough to run an effective counterinsurgency according to General Petraeus's own formula regarding how many troops you need per x number of citizens, because the military is broken?

War to win? Your tin god Bush guaranteed defeat years ago.

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