Strategy for Victory: "Surrender with Honor"

The substance of the President's speech and his “strategy for victory” reveals a staggering disconnect from reality and reliance on Lyndon Johnson- and Nixon-like projections of costless optimism that have the feel of a game of Risk, but played by cruel Roman legionnaires: Their game pieces are flesh and blood GIs and Iraqis. For now, Bush’s “strategy for victory” is designed to delay the inevitable and give the United States a form of “withdrawal with honor.” That’s all the strategy is about. The war itself is lost. So is Iraq . On Wednesday, President Bush surrendered, and submitted a thirty-five page plan of retreat. It was ghost-written by John P. Murtha. Read the full article...