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Sometimes We Write Letters

In response to this post by Rich Lowry over at the National Review, I wrote him this e-mail:

A "Better War in Iraq"?

Dear Mr. Lowry,

It might be instructive to take a close look at the titles of not only your post on the NR blog, but the article itself as well.

A "Better War" suggests that America has fought the wrong one since its inception. You were one of the people pushing for this war from the beginning. What happened to "We're Winning"? Now we need better war?

As for "Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife", there are two year old children that know that doesn't work. Is that a policy recommendation? Seriously, that's the most stupid excrement I've heard in years. Maybe Americans can get their head's around the "oil spot" theory, but knives with soup? What do you take us for, fucking retards?

Let's have a look at this:

"The most important lesson of the past is the critical role of national patience and persistence in defeating an insurgency. We are three years into a counterinsurgency campaign that history suggests will take at least a decade to win. This lesson cannot be repeated too often, sobering though it is for a democracy accustomed to quick victories or speedy withdrawals from intractable conflicts: Insurgencies are long wars."

Why won't the president come forward and declare that this war will take decades to win? The one in Iraq that is. If, as you suggest, we as a country should be prepared to support a foreign campaign that grinds up Iraqi civilians and the American military at steady rates for the next ten to twelve years, where's the sales job?

I look forward to your defense of all of these policies as they appear in, what, 2016? 2018?

Good Luck with all that.
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I'm sure he'll ever so pleased with that. I did screw up that second-to-last sentence, so he probably thinks I'm an idiot, but oh well (I'm sort of an idiot, but not a complete one). The sentiment, however, I believe shines clearly.

posted by FuzzFinger @ 9/07/2006 06:33:00 PM