Giblets over at Fafblog makes a persuasive case for staying the course in Iraq:
The only thing to do is for America to stay the course and remain in Iraq for the next five to twelvezenteen years, until either our resources are depleted or we have been chased from the roof of the American embassy in the middle of a full-blown civil war. That is the kind of blood-curdling, explosively crippling losingdom that terrorists can stand back and admire!
Because when America loses, America loses victoriously!
Well, Hastert is pushing the House to take a stand on this one,
“It is the sense of the House of Representatives that the deployment of United States forces in Iraq be terminated immediately.”
It’s about time.
I’d prefer our message to our Allies in Iraq and the rest of the Muslim world have been Grinnell’s Harry Hopkins words to Churchill on Jan 15, 1941 –almost a year before the US joined Britian in War against Hitler at a time it was unclear the American people would help–
Hopkins got up and turning to Chruchill, said: “I suppose you wish to know what I amg goint to say to President Roosevelt on my return. Well, I’m going to quoe you one verse from that Book of Books in the truth of which Mr. Johnston’s mother and my own Scottish mother were brought up.”
Hopkins then quoted: “Whither thou goest, I will go; and where dhou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.” Then he added, very quietly, “Even to the end.”
you’ll find this reference in Martin Gilberts new book, Churchill and America, p215… Tony Blair has referred to it also.
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