Well, by that standard the occupation of Iraq has been a roaring success, hasn’t it? The Bush strategy reflected in Glenn’s revealing joke seems to be that, if you don’t actually know how to make an omelet, you should just smash lots of eggs and hope an omelet will arise spontaneously.
Of course violence is sometimes necessary; that’s the Machiavellian point some Blue people refuse to learn. But violence is always a cost, never a benefit, and should be used sparingly, and never gratuitously or excessively: that’s the Machiavellian point some Red people would prefer to ignore.