Правь, Британия!
Oct. 13th, 2006 12:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
birdwatcherBritain’s top army commander said the presence of British troops in Iraq was exacerbating security problems on the ground and they should be withdrawn soon. Gen. Sir Richard Dannatt said the British presence in Iraq also hurt British security interests abroad.
А мы? А мы? А у нас я -- первый (и, наверное, единственный), кто считает, что можно уйти сейчас из Ирака, без катастрофических последствий для безопасности и экономики США.
А мы? А мы? А у нас я -- первый (и, наверное, единственный), кто считает, что можно уйти сейчас из Ирака, без катастрофических последствий для безопасности и экономики США.
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Date: 2006-10-13 01:21 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-10-13 02:04 pm (UTC)А кто это такой и куда он избирался?
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Date: 2006-10-13 02:15 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badnarik#Issue_positions
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Date: 2006-10-13 05:55 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost
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Date: 2006-10-13 06:09 pm (UTC)1. Paid the price of the ticket and suffered watching a movie that he does not want to see, or;
2. Paid the price of the ticket and used the time to do something more fun.
They don't discuss situation 3: paid the price and enjoyed the movie.
I am sure that Bush and his team have some kind of agenda in Iraq. He probably expects to "enjoy the movie" at some point, if he doesn't now. However, he didn't pay for it with his own money, he "embezelled". Some people were talking about possible impeachement after the elections in November... We'll see.
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Date: 2006-10-13 06:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-13 06:26 pm (UTC)Или демократы в целом поддерживают оккупацию?
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Date: 2006-10-13 07:44 pm (UTC)For me personally, a failure is not reaching a set goal in a set timeframe. Right now I may suspect that current administration failed by looking at the goals and timeframes that they presented to the public. What their real goals and timeframes are - I don't know. However, if we pull out right now, whoever makes the decision admits that it's a failure (and I am fine with that).
From my point of view, this operation hasn't failed, as my timeframe for getting to their publically announced goals is much more flexible. What I am saying is, this was a mistake from the very beginning - but not something completely "undoable". It's just bad planning and forecasting.
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Date: 2006-10-13 10:51 pm (UTC)Это не то же самое. Вы ещё скажите, что я сплю, пока ем, и я ем, пока сплю - это одно и то же.
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Date: 2006-10-15 02:35 pm (UTC)I think there is one more element of the triple constraint missing in your definition :) Scope (aka goal) / schedule / resources. So, what resources are you ready to throw at accomplishing this goal? In this war, just like in Vietnam, the real question to me seems to be - what are the resources we are ready to expend? So, from my point of view, it is a failure because we have already spent more than I would have been prepared to, with no visible progress (in fact, quite the opposite, a quick deterioration of the situation). Maybe we did not use or resources right, but that's beside the point now.
So I do not want to see it in the terms of doable/undoable. It might well have been doable but it ain't no more.