July 31, 2007
Mantra
Posted by
Mark Kleiman
I'm late to the party on this, but the more I think about it the more convinced I am that Amb. Ryan Crocker gave the anti-war Democrats what should be their #1 talking point:
We are buying time at a cost of the lives of our soldiers.
Kudos to Crocker for telling the truth so bluntly. (His bosses can't have been pleased.) But lives-for-time is not a deal that much of the country would support, especially since the Iraqi leadership seems to be unable or unwilling to use that time constructively; that's why the Bushoid dead-enders are hanging on by fantasizing about "victory."
If I were Obama or Edwards or Clinton or Reid or Pelosi, I'd put a sentence into every speech, no matter what the topic, and update the figures every day:
Since Ambassador Crocker said that we were buying time for the Iraqis at the cost of the lives of our soldiers, we have bought XXX (days, weeks, months) for YYY lives. And we're no closer to peace, let alone victory. When will we have paid enough?
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