Comments on: Sunk costs and bad metaphors

By: Russ

Russ — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:56:35 +0000

BTW, I don’t agree with your assessment of terrorism. It is indeed an attempt to get a unilateral decision-maker to make decisions you want, including surrender, etc. – at least as it is used by militant Islam. The intent is to get non-Muslim populations to pressure their leaders to make concession after concession to Muslims, as we have seen, especially in Europe, where Spain has withdrawn from Iraq, laws are passed and social taboos raised prohibiting speaking against Islam or taking any other action needed to support resistance against creeping Muslim authority in (currently) non-Muslim lands. The way it has to be fought is different, but it is hardly equivalent to earthquakes, which happen randomly and cannot realistically be affected by human action.

By: Russ

Russ — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:59:44 +0000

It’s not enough to say – “they broke it so it’s not our fault.” If you think it’s broken, you need to say what you plan to do. Maybe it can’t be fixed. fine. So what ARE you going to do? Ignore it? Leave it, like a ticking bomb in the middle of the street?
Having no plan means either that you don’t think it matters (in which case, bashing the Republicans doesn’t make sense) or that you are afraid to touch something that would be the next administration’s responsibility – in which case, how can you be trusted with that responsibility?
No plan is not an acceptable answer

By: Ambrose

Ambrose — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:19:18 +0000

To paraphrase Will Rogers on how to win a war, if you don’t win don’t start it.

By: Michael Connolly

Michael Connolly — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:05:00 +0000

The War metaphor is always a mistake. It never leads to insight. It is toxic.