One catch phrase is dead. 'Stay the course' died a very public death last week. It's probably for the best, since it always seemed to make people ask, "There's a course?" 'Stay the course' isn't a very good argument when the ship is obviously rudderless.
Unfortunately, catch phrases are pretty much all we have for a strategy. Now we have 'adapt to win,' which would be a little heartening if it weren't coming from an inflexible administration. Adaptation would mean change and these guys aren't about that.
So, we have two original catch phrases left -- there may be more, but it's early and I can't think of any. We have 'cut and run,' which is what we're supposed to think we shouldn't do. I guess leaving Iraq would make us sissies or something. The manly thing to do when you find yourself beating the crap out of the wrong guy is to keep beating the crap out of the wrong guy. Only wusses admit those kind of mistakes.
The other is 'We have to fight them over there, so we don't have to fight them over here.' Compared to the other catch phrases spilling out of the pen of Frank Luntz, this one is positively verbose. It's also completely illogical...
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note: Blogger's been completely FUBAR this weekend, so I don't know if I'll be able to do many updates today -- I gave up yesterday.
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