Friday, November 14, 2008

Define "Over".

Putz writes:

"THE WAR IS OVER AND WE WON:" Michael Yon just phoned from Baghdad, and reports that things are much better than he had expected, and he had expected things to be good.


I hope this is true, but this triumphalism in the wake of bloodshed seems, um, familiar....

In 2003:

SGT. STRYKER writes that the war is over, and we've won. Thank goodness. It was starting to seem like a quagmire.


And 2005:

KARL ZINSMEISTER says the war is over and we won...