Sunday Morning Political Burp....

Politics...
Will the current Republican "stay the course"..."no cut and run"..."to pullout only emboldens the terrorists", Iraq rhetoric prove effective with the American public? Maybe yes, maybe no...the only thing that might prevent Republicans getting their butts kicked out of Congress this fall is their pathetic Democratic opposition.

As far as the "emboldening the opposition" logic...I've always found that when an adversary gives you a daily ass-kicking it emboldens them even more than say... you pay someone else to kick their ass or...you avoid giving them the opportunity to kick your ass in the first place. Right now Iraq is sort of like NYC if the populace turned on the NYPD. There wouldn't be one police car that wasn't an urban campfire. The administrataion keeps blathering about the positive stories in Iraq but the only one who can find those gleaming nuggets of American success is Tony Snow. The rank and file Iraqi hates us, violence and casualties are on the rise, civil war is happening, the "Green Zone" is now an arrow covered, cirle of wagons surrounded by hordes of hostiles with no John Wayne in sight...and soon the choppers will be circling the emabassy rooftop like in good ol'Saigon...better to make our own travel plans than let some Iraqi travel agent/suicide bomber pick your hotel. We've run-up quite a bar bill in Iraq and now it's time to get the check, leave the minimum tip and get are ass to valet parking and outta there...oh, I guess that qualifies as "cut and run", well...I prefer to call it a strategic, tactical withdrawal. When we get the urge we can always lob a few shells into Fallujah from Kuwait and let Don Rumsfeld's ever strengthening Iraqi army take over the fray.

Oh, I think the Red Sox should consider a similar strategy after dropping three to the Yankees in the most...let me find the right term...self-diminishing fashion.
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