Thursday, December 28, 2006
Escalate, Then Figure Out a Mission
This is precisely what's happening. Matthew Yglesias slammed it home for me:
It's not that the president has some policy initiative in mind whose operational requirements dictate a surge in force levels. Rather, locked in the prison of his own denial he came to the conclusion that he should back an escalation, prompting the current search for a mission.Speechless.
