Re: Lost Causes

[lsanderson]

The Arithmetic of Failure
By PAUL KRUGMAN
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists>
Iraq is a lost cause. It's just a matter of arithmetic: given the
violence of the environment, with ethnic groups and rival militias at
each other's throats, American forces there are large enough to suffer
terrible losses, but far too small to stabilize the country.
http://select.nytimes.com/2006/10/27/opinion/27krugman.html

Op-Ed Contributor
Staying the Course Right Over a Cliff
By GEORGE LAKOFF
Berkeley, Calif.
THE Bush administration has finally been caught in its own language
trap.
"That is not a stay-the-course policy," Tony Snow, the White House press
secretary, declared on Monday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/27/opinion/27lakoff.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
&pagewanted=print


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[sleigh.livejournal.com]

Like the Lakoff article, and I feel he's right in his conclusion that the Dems have yet to frame their counter-argument, and that they're missing a golden moment in not doing so...