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Friday, Oct 31, 2003
A doctorate in unintended irony?
This excerpt is the conlusion that Dr. Paul was driving towards in the quotation cited in the previous post. Dr. Paul intended to describe the situation of the Ba'athist deadenders, but may be describing the situation in which he and the rest of the civilian leadership have placed our troops.
Previously I've speculated that Dr. Paul had an infarction in the irony cortex. But perhaps instead Dr. Paul has got the Shrubster Truth Inversion Syndrome, which causes one to say precisely the opposite of the truth. You know, "Clear Skies Initiative", "Returning Integrity to the Oval Office", "Mission Accomplished", et cetera.
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An excerpt from billmon's
Neolib Group Think
In any case, this appears to have been the fatal flaw (or one of the fatal flaws) in the neocons' assumption that a serious guerrilla movement was impossible in Iraq because it would lack an outside "sanctuary." Or as Wolfowitz put it in a June interview with the Washington Post:Dr. Paul: Densest military intellect ever.I think it is worth emphasizing that these guys lack the two classical ingredients of a victory in a so-called guerrilla war if that's what you want to say they're conducting. They lack the sympathy of the population and they lack any serious source of external support.The first part is obviously untrue -- at least in the Sunni Triangle and the more militant pro-Baathist districts of Baghdad. And, as I said, the latter part may be irrelevant, at least in the short run. It's offset by the fact that the Baathists had years to plan, prepare and lay in the logistical support for a protracted guerrilla war.
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