three years and 2000 deaths late

The Bush administration has finally announced some sort of exit strategy. Okay, well that's what they'd like it to be...but there are no dates, no real objectives, and no real anything at all. I like this:

"Victory in Iraq is a Vital U.S. Interest," the document says. "Iraq is the central front in the global war on terror. Failure in Iraq will embolden terrorists and expand their reach; success in Iraq will deal them a decisive and crippling blow."

"In the meantime," it should continue (but of course doesn't), "The Iraqi front gives the terrorists® a training ground and rallying cry akin to Soviet Afghanistan in the 1980's, ensuring propagation of trained terrorists for decades to come!" (The exclamation point being the spice that most of these policy reports miss...well, that and the honesty)