December 7, 2006, Pearl Harbor... 65 years on
A group of survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hickam Air Base, etc. gathered in Honolulu... in what they anticipate wiill likely be their final reunion, given their aging demographic.
It has, of course, been noted that we have now been engaged in Iraq longer than the time between Pearl Harbor, and the Japanese surrender. The Iraq Study Group TM has concluded that current policy has led to a grave and deteriorating situation, i.e. a failure (i.e., the GOP lost both Houses of Congress...) The report, in true bipartisan fashion, accomplishes... well... nothing. Or, in other words, Iraq kind of sucks... ya' think?
And thus we give you the difference between non-discretionary and discretionary wars... Or, in another parlance, the difference between "wars" and "wars on ___". The difference? WARS END.
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Imagine a football game with no time limits. No four quarters of play. The score would not count for anything if the victor was the last team to leave the field. Victory would be a matter of attrition, not TDs.
Consider the Presidents claim we will not loose unless we leave Iraq before victory. The game without time limits. The spectators are bored and frustrated (last election) they realize the game is meaningless. And some have discovered that their ticket to the contest is a pay-by-the-minute deal.
The ISG is an attempt to change the way the game will be played. Coach Bush thinks he can only win by attrition (we are down about 10 TDs) but the game will go on for decades.
Who wants a season ticket?
Posted by Doug Hughes at December 7, 2006 10:37 PM
The only winners in this fiasco are the weapons builders and the government contractors who have and will get rich from the current and future policy implications of this disastrous episode. Here in Australia our glorious leader is just waiting for GWB and his cronies to decide what to do before committing to any changes in involvement. For War on Terror read War on America and Americas War on the World.
Posted by Colin Campbell at December 9, 2006 7:54 PM