Friday, April 27, 2007
There he goes again
The undisputed king of lowered expectations is doing it again. This time Our Dear Embattled Leader is fiddling with what we should expect to see as signs of 'progress' in Iraq. From their formerly small position, he and his minions are trying to chivvy them down to minuscule.
The Bush administration will not try to assess whether the troop increase in Iraq is producing signs of political progress or greater security until September, and many of Mr. Bush’s top advisers now anticipate that any gains by then will be limited, according to senior administration officials.If you can't get the success you want, you redefine the failure you have. Success is way overrated anyway.
In interviews over the past week, the officials made clear that the White House is gradually scaling back its expectations for the government of President Nuri Kamal al-Maliki. The timelines they are now discussing suggest that the White House may maintain the increased numbers of American troops in Iraq well into next year.
That prospect would entail a dramatically longer commitment of frontline troops, patrolling the most dangerous neighborhoods of Baghdad, than the one envisioned in legislation that passed the House and Senate this week.
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