From Woodward’s new book, Saint Petraeus explaining his foreign policy in Afghanistan (not sure if Obama was consulted, but does it really matter?):
Woodward quotes Petraeus as saying, “You have to recognize also that I don’t think you win this war. I think you keep fighting. It’s a little bit like Iraq, actually. . . . Yes, there has been enormous progress in Iraq. But there are still horrific attacks in Iraq, and you have to stay vigilant. You have to stay after it. This is the kind of fight we’re in for the rest of our lives and probably our kids’ lives.”
Winning is for quitters.
Real men keep fighting.
During a flight in May, after a glass of wine, Petraeus told his own staffers that the administration was “[expletive] with the wrong guy.”
This country is so fucked.
September 22, 2010 at 11:38 am
This is the kind of fight we’re in for the rest of our lives and probably our kids’ lives.
Notify Michelle O’Donnell that Bill Kristol just ejaculated in his pants.
September 22, 2010 at 11:41 am
Whoops, Christine…
September 22, 2010 at 11:48 am
Both!
September 22, 2010 at 12:15 pm
This is the kind of fight we’re in for the rest of our lives and probably our kids’ lives.
Spoken like a Pashtun tribesman fighting a blood feud.
September 22, 2010 at 1:38 pm
So I guess we’re supposed to fight and fight and fight and fight, even though we don’t really know why we’re fighting anymore, or whether it’s really worth it.
That’s not a light at the end of the tunnel. that’s just our tunnel vision.
September 22, 2010 at 4:07 pm
What has any of this to do with the new season of American Idol?
September 22, 2010 at 4:19 pm
We have always been at war with Eurasia.
September 22, 2010 at 4:22 pm
Over a glass a wine? What a pussy faggot. That’s something you opine in-between sips of green apple slurpee while perusing the latest issue of Captain America. Sentimental Android.
September 22, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Not exactly the next Smedley Butler, is he?
I give him just a few more years of bloodshed and stasis in his “generational” war and he’ll be whining about the “bloody ungrateful wogs” like any other good imperialist.
Even if he manages to figure out that he’s playing Henri Navarre to everyone else’s Raoul Salan, it still won’t occur to him that he’s just running a higher-tech version of the French Foreign Legion….
September 23, 2010 at 11:12 am
“This country is so fucked.”
Yeah, but at least we’re better off than Iraq and Afghanistan.
September 23, 2010 at 12:01 pm
Oh man, that made me laugh.
Now I have one more thing to answer for on judgment day.
September 23, 2010 at 12:08 pm
They’ll be fighting sand wars in the Middle East for the next 3,000 years. Doesn’t anyone understand that?
September 23, 2010 at 12:14 pm
Yeah, but why do we have to partake?