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Failure to launch
This episode takes us back to the first Bush problem, which was a failure to commit the troops necessary to accomplish the mission. Every action since then has been a half hearted effort to bring the troop levels into line. The surge is too little, too late. The bitter irony of the plan to stay in Iraq as long as it takes, is that we aren't committed to victory.
An historian comparing Ancient Rome to Bush's Pax Americanus, said that Iraq would have been crushed by the Roman army. Their empire did not take half measures. Yet we delight in the comparisons, which makes me wonder if the next President won't be a heckuva lot worse than the one we have now..