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Quote of the Day

September 14th, 2007 by Steve

Andrew Sullivan provided some interesting insight into the speech President Bush delivered last night, but what I found most compelling was his call for reality-based foreign policy in Iraq. I have a feeling I’ll be quoting this paragraph many times in the future.

“It rips many of us apart to think of the pleasure that some vile human beings may draw temporarily from our retreat. But they gain far more pleasure by America’s permanent entrapment in a quicksand from which there is no escape and which has already replenished the ranks of the enemy. I supported this war for a long time; but I cannot honestly blind myself to the reality of failure out of pride or sheer wishfulness. We need a president able to acknowledge this reality, to tell us how to salvage what we can from the wreckage of a broken country, how to disengage in a way that maximizes our interests and weakens our enemies. Only on those grounds can we unite again and find a way forward. Not on these grounds; not with this president; not without many, many more troops for many, many more years.”

Posted in National Politics, Libertarian Movement

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