President Bush's press conference yesterday was pretty light on substance. Most people expected it to be the wrap of his big listening tour. Instead, the Decider announced he hasn't decided what to do about Iraq.
Many expected him to announce a troop increase in Iraq, but with the Democrats in congress skeptical and the Joint Chiefs of Staff unanimously opposed, that didn't happen. All he actually announced was that he thought we were in it for the long haul.
"I'm not going to make predictions about what 2007 will look like in Iraq, except that it's going to require difficult choices and additional sacrifices," Bush said.
'Sacrifices' is a better word for it than Bush likely realizes. From the latin sacrificare, it means 'sacred deed.' A sacrifice is a price paid on faith, with no guarantee of return. Human sacrifice is infamously ineffective. It's what you do when you're desperate and out of ideas...
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Thursday, December 21, 2006
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