Imagine for a moment that a store were to take all of their prices and double them. The next day, they have a 50% off sale and market the hell out of it, peddling it as a boon for consumers. Wouldn't that offend your intelligence?
That's pretty much what this troop drawdown feels like. A few morons notwithstanding, the majority of the public has been clamoring for a withdrawl of some of our troops for many, many months. Notwithstanding the enormous support for that idea, we nevertheless authorized a temporary increase in troops, i.e., the "surge," back in March. It bears highlighting the fact that by its very nature, the surge was supposed to be (or was at least marketed as) temporary.
Back to present day, Bush finally agrees to a drawdown -- to pre-surge numbers, by the middle of next summer. Whether you believe that the surge is really working or that Bush is finally relenting to pressure is unimportant -- the point is that the end result of all of this is to put us in the very same situation back when Bush pleaded to give him one more chance, with the surge.
There is little question now that the next president will inherit this war. Anyone else feel like Bush is just trying to buy time so he won't have to be the one that orders the withdrawl?
Soldiers lives > Bush's legacy. That's the way it ought to be, anyway.
That's pretty much what this troop drawdown feels like. A few morons notwithstanding, the majority of the public has been clamoring for a withdrawl of some of our troops for many, many months. Notwithstanding the enormous support for that idea, we nevertheless authorized a temporary increase in troops, i.e., the "surge," back in March. It bears highlighting the fact that by its very nature, the surge was supposed to be (or was at least marketed as) temporary.
Back to present day, Bush finally agrees to a drawdown -- to pre-surge numbers, by the middle of next summer. Whether you believe that the surge is really working or that Bush is finally relenting to pressure is unimportant -- the point is that the end result of all of this is to put us in the very same situation back when Bush pleaded to give him one more chance, with the surge.
There is little question now that the next president will inherit this war. Anyone else feel like Bush is just trying to buy time so he won't have to be the one that orders the withdrawl?
Soldiers lives > Bush's legacy. That's the way it ought to be, anyway.
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