Reply #90: No what he said was that "stay the course" is an empty slogan. [View All]

[Warren Stupidity]

It certainly is, but I don't think the general quite understands why.

I read his essay. It is essentially identical to the DLC-themed position that Kerry took during his awful campaign. It calls for a better, bigger, newer, more nuanced, less unilateral imperial adventure in Iraq. We will continue to teach the Iraqis how to be a civilized democracy if we have to kill every last one of them. It fails entirely to recognize that we don't get to have a say in how the Iraqi people organize their affairs or, more importantly, that our presence there as a foreign occupying army, is the major cause for the current mess. The solution to the mess, the way we get out of the Iraqi killing business, is to get out. Now rather than later. It is that simple.

With the Republican neocon agenda in retreat and the GOP in serious political trouble over Iraq, our party's leaders almost uniformly refuse to stand with the people of this country and oppose the war. Instead, pushed by their DLC mentors, they just regurgitate the same madness as their cohorts across the isle, only less triumphalist, less unilateral, more nuanced. Our party's leaders refuse to lead, and they continue to be complicit in the carnage this fool's errand has wrought.