Expectations and Delusions in Iraq and Afghanistan

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Expectations and Delusions in Iraq and Afghanistan

Expectations and Delusions in Iraq and Afghanistan

by DHinMI
Sun Nov 25, 2007 at 03:40:48 PM PST

George W. Bush, in 2006:

We need to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you have low expectations, you're going to get lousy results.

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Despite all the administration's crowing about the supposed "success" of the surge—which came too late to prevent most of the ethnic cleansing, and the lower casualty rates may be more a result of a possible respite by sectarian forces as the prepare for heightened actions against each other—it’s clear there’s been no serious political progress:

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White House ‘pessimistic’ about Afghanistan war.

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