When President Bush announced the “Surge,” he claimed that it would “hasten the day our troops begin returning home.” Notice that the President didn’t set a date for bringing the troops home. Nor did he say that the Surge would allow us to bring all our troops home. He only promised that the day when our troops would “begin returning home,” whenever that will occur, would occur sooner than it would have occurred if the Surge hadn’t occurred.
Now that the Surge has surged, the President is saying that it “has opened the door to a major strategic victory in the broader war on terror.” No word on where exactly that door leads, or how long it will take to walk through it, or what exactly we will find once we cross the threshold, or how much it might cost, or what exactly what “a major strategic victory in the broader war on terror” would amount to.
Clearly, we’re a long way from “Mission Accomplished.” Whatever you want to say about the President, he does learn from his mistakes, at least the grammatical ones.
