Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English American dead.
Henry V, Act 3, Scene 1
After Democrats swept the November midterm elections, people both inside and outside the administration expected the bipartisan Iraq Study Group to provide Mr. Bush with a face-saving exit from the war. Mr. Bush made favorable reference to the study group on Wednesday night, noting that he had accepted some of its 79 recommendations.But he rejected its central notion, that the United States should set a timetable for scaling back combat operations and mount a new diplomatic offensive to engage Iran and Syria. Mr. Bush concluded that those recommendations were not a recipe for victory, but rather, as he said after a meeting with Mr. Maliki in November, a recipe for “a graceful exit,” a path he did not want to pursue.
A path he did not want to pursue. Nope. Dad bailed out of Iraq; I'm not gonna.
Persistence is often admirable, but stubbornness and obstinacy are not. More and more Bush reminds me of one of the kings Shakespeare wrote tragedies about, but there's nothing sympathetic about our King George.
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Pete Seeger, Where Have All the Flowers Gone, 1961
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