Yesterday listening to a right wing pundit who heads an organization the aim of which is to punish those Republican congressmen who do not continue to support Bush's war. He complained about the "defeatism" that is permeating this country. He exhorted the American people to get behind the President and the troops in order to "snatch victory from the jaws of defeat."
I find the pundit's metaphor faulty. Victory is no longer in the jaws of Defeat. Defeat has chewed Victory, has swallowed Victory, has digested Victory, and is presently preparing to excrete Victory onto the dusty ground of Iraq. If we snatch Victory now, we snatch it from the bowels of defeat. A rather unsavory clot of Victory that would be.
I suggest the pundit attempt to snatch a bit of reality from the jaws of delusion. The war was never winnable. It's time to bring our soldiers home.
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