> "Let me be as clear as I can be, I intend to end
> this war," Mr. Obama said. "My first day in
> office I will bring the Joint Chiefs of Staff
> in and I will give them a new mission and that
> is to end this war--responsibly, deliberately,
> but decisively."
>
> There is a word for ending a war responsibly.
> It's called "winning," and it is what George W.
> Bush and John McCain--though they have at times
> disagreed about tactics--have agreed on all
> along. It's good to see Obama adopting, or at
> least seeming to adopt, the Bush-McCain position.
>
> Maybe Obama has always been for victory in Iraq,
> as he now claims; or maybe he was and remains
> pro-defeat and his latest pronouncements are
> merely a verbal smokescreen intended to obscure
> his actual views so as to appeal to people on
> both sides of the debate.
By definition, irresponsible is the admission of defeat. As defeat is the reality, only denial is responsible.
Odd how wingnuts often say what the Serious People mean but obscure.
Shane