HOW I WON THE WAR, PART 80,432,343
Jul. 21st, 2008 11:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogSenator John McCain knows how to win him some wars. He said so in Albuquerque, NM. So it must be true.
From what I can tell, his strategy for winning wars is: just keep fighting until the other guy gives up. Or you kill everyone on the other side. And to be fair, either would definitely work. One day. Eventually. If we were fighting an actual country with an actual army and not a bunch of terrorists and insurgents motivated by the sheer fact that we’re in their country in the first place.
Amusingly, however, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki seems to prefer the Obama strategy for winning wars: i.e. getting the hell out of his country in 18 months.
Everybody loves a winner,
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EDITED TO ADD [7/23]: Regarding al-Maliki's comments on the Obama strategy, a fascinating case of spin has been unfolding. al-Maliki's supposed spokesperson said [via CENTCOM] that the PM's remarks were "mistranslated" and Der Spiegel's translator got it wrong. Only it was al-Maliki's own translator who made the translation. And Der Spiegel has since produced the original audio of the interview, which has been verified by other media sources via their own translators.
See what they did there?
I know how to win wars. I know how to win wars. And if I’m elected President, I will turn around the war in Afghanistan, just as we have turned around the war in Iraq, with a comprehensive strategy for victory, I know how to do that.
From what I can tell, his strategy for winning wars is: just keep fighting until the other guy gives up. Or you kill everyone on the other side. And to be fair, either would definitely work. One day. Eventually. If we were fighting an actual country with an actual army and not a bunch of terrorists and insurgents motivated by the sheer fact that we’re in their country in the first place.
Amusingly, however, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki seems to prefer the Obama strategy for winning wars: i.e. getting the hell out of his country in 18 months.
Everybody loves a winner,
This is dF
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EDITED TO ADD [7/23]: Regarding al-Maliki's comments on the Obama strategy, a fascinating case of spin has been unfolding. al-Maliki's supposed spokesperson said [via CENTCOM] that the PM's remarks were "mistranslated" and Der Spiegel's translator got it wrong. Only it was al-Maliki's own translator who made the translation. And Der Spiegel has since produced the original audio of the interview, which has been verified by other media sources via their own translators.
See what they did there?
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on 2008-07-22 06:02 am (UTC)Given that military officials who have achieved higher ranks than he could ever dream of (the entire reason he went into politics is because he knew he wouldn't rise any higher in the military) have said that this strategy is bullshit and won't work, I'll take their advice over his. They've got more experience and knowledge under their belt and McCain is completely and utterly without substance.
The amusing (or frightening, depending on how you look at it) thing is the Republican attack point against John Kerry was that he's a flip-flopper, yet McCain's been doing that for the past few years and no one's batted an eye.