McCain's Pyrrhic Victory Dance
reduced to hammering away on the tiny little point of the Surge and acknowledging that it was "successful".
Successful by what measure and according to whom seems to matter less than the rhetorical arm twisting to get Obama to say 'uncle' on this issue.
Now,the context here is an illegal and heinously immoral war fought on false pretense, that has cost thousands upon thousands of lives and half a trillion dollars, which Obama opposed from the outset... but the surge, the surge, the surge.
The chickehawks in Washington have applied the insane logic of using the same methods while waiting for a different result long enough that, during this temporary lull in violence, they are tripping over each other to claim some kind of "victory".
If a small, temporary, relative decrease in violence, bought with apocalyptic destruction and hellish suffering, is celebrated as some kind of progress then we really should be cheering "Pyrrhus for president! Pyrrhus for president!
( See Pyrrhic Victory )
posted by Atomos @ 11:38
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