Query

“Failure in Iraq would be a calamity that would haunt our nation, impair our credibility and endanger Americans for decades to come.”

- Robert Gates 12/18/2006

At this completely irrelevant blog in the generally irrelevant blogworld, I'm just wondering if someone in, say the press, can ask:

What is "failing" and what about not failing it is so important that not having it is a "disaster"?

I'm sitting here trying to remember when it has actually worked out for the country that has an undefinable "victory" and needs to preserve their "honor".

Has it ever occurred that when the reason for staying with the war came down to fighting for national "honor" that it has NOT actually been about saving face for those who launched the fucking war and at the expense of those who are damned to carry out their bad policies?

From now on the Decider is also known as "Tojo" Bush.