President Bush is intensifying his rhetoric on the Iraq war. So is Rumsfeld. Mencius replies:
Talk is easy when you don't have to get the job done. (136).
They are not trying to "get the job done," which would require a significant change in strategy or tactics, which, in turn, would require an admission that the original strategy and tactics had failed. They will not admit to such errors; so, we are stuck with heightened rhetoric with no substantive effort to "get the job done." And they are politically free - at least personally - to do this until January 20, 2009. Talk is easy...
UPDATE: David Weigel thinks that Rumsfeld's "I'm OK, you're and appeaser" line is not going to work. Let's hope so.
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