Framing the Setup
I can hear it now:
"The strategy didn't fail - our generals let us down."
"The strategy didn't fail - the American people just didn't have the guts to tough it out."
"The strategy didn't fail - the lying media undercut public support with their skewed reporting."
"The strategy didn't fail - THE GOD DAMNED LIBERALS STABBED US IN THE BACK!!!!"
There is no end to the insanity of these people.
Think Progress » Escalation Architect Kagan: ‘Whatever You Can Say About The Current Strategy, It Has Not Failed’
Today, the American Enterprise Institute, a neoconservative think tank, held a discussion entitled “Assessing the Surge in Iraq,” featuring prominent Iraq war proponents like Fred Kagan, Gen. Jack Keane, and James Miller of the Center for a New American Security.Technorati Tags: Kagan, surge, certifiable, Iraq, war, MISERABLE FAILURE
Bush’s escalation was largely inspired by a October 2006 paper written by Kagan, who stated that the U.S. needed to “re-enter Iraq in large numbers.” In today’s conference, Kagan claimed there was a “general agreement” that “violence overall is down” but refused to provide any factual evidence for those arguments:The worst that can be said of [the escalation] at this point is that the results have been mixed. I frankly think the results are less mixed…We can argue about statistics, but at the end of the day, that argument is not going to get us anywhere right now. … Whatever you can say about the current strategy, it has not failed.
