Comments on: Flipmode The Imperial http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/25/imperialkrauthammer/ Just another Firedoglake weblog Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:04:35 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: danps http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/25/imperialkrauthammer/comment-page-1/#comment-929 danps Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:18:28 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/25/imperialkrauthammer/#comment-929 <p>And the “Uruk-hai” line belongs in a time capsule.</p> And the “Uruk-hai” line belongs in a time capsule.

]]> By: danps http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/25/imperialkrauthammer/comment-page-1/#comment-928 danps Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:12:17 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/25/imperialkrauthammer/#comment-928 <p>Um, “astonishing success of the surge”? I left the following on another site, but I’ll repeat it here: The surge was announced in January 2007 and it was universally acknowledged that by September of that year we would know whether or not it succeeded. This particular product arrived on shelves with the slogan ‘Return on Success’, with the idea being that a temporary increase of soldiers in Baghdad would provide the necessary stability for political reconciliation to occur. If as you insist the surge succeeded then why didn’t soldiers begin returning on it ten months ago?</p> <p>You know, when you can’t even get a paragraph in to a column without seeing obvious and rank sophistry it’s a pretty sad commentary on the outlet that hosts it. I produce more honest and thoughtful writing at my own tiny little popsicle stand (<a href="http://www.pruningshears.us/pruning-shears/2008/7/24/afflicting-the-comfortable.html" rel="nofollow">e.g. yesterday</a>). These clowns are, as my wife likes to say, as useless as tits on a bull.</p> Um, “astonishing success of the surge”? I left the following on another site, but I’ll repeat it here: The surge was announced in January 2007 and it was universally acknowledged that by September of that year we would know whether or not it succeeded. This particular product arrived on shelves with the slogan ‘Return on Success’, with the idea being that a temporary increase of soldiers in Baghdad would provide the necessary stability for political reconciliation to occur. If as you insist the surge succeeded then why didn’t soldiers begin returning on it ten months ago?

You know, when you can’t even get a paragraph in to a column without seeing obvious and rank sophistry it’s a pretty sad commentary on the outlet that hosts it. I produce more honest and thoughtful writing at my own tiny little popsicle stand (e.g. yesterday). These clowns are, as my wife likes to say, as useless as tits on a bull.

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