Reply #20: Thanks! It's just painful for me to watch Dems beat up [View All]

[LandOLincoln]

other Dems, Progressives beat up other Progressives, over semantics rather than real differences.

Not that there aren't some real differences, mind you, but it seems to me that we'll have far fewer differences if we can define our terms.

Also, you said "We owe those people clean water, power and some hope of safety."

I agree completely, and I've come up with an analogy for our Iraq situation that isn't perfectly on point, but close enough, and it might just inspire somebody out there to come up with the catchphrase we need to scuttle Karl's "stay the course" and "cut and run" for good.

As far as I'm concerned, we've done to Iraq what the cops do when they take down the wrong house:

They kick in the doors, dump the drawers, punch holes in the walls, wreck the plumbing, terrorize the occupants

and then say, "Oops--wrong address. Sorry!" and split

leaving the household to clean up the mess, and sue the city for damages (and good luck with that).

No one in his right mind would argue that those people are not owed restitution and relief, am I right?

Anyway, hope that inspires some talented phrasemaker out there. I like what I've seen so far very much, but I haven't seen THE ONE yet.