Comments on: Will Obama Out-BS Bush? http://jimbovard.com/blog/2009/12/01/will-obama-out-bs-bush/ Author James Bovard Tue, 22 May 2012 19:45:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Dirk W. Sabin http://jimbovard.com/blog/2009/12/01/will-obama-out-bs-bush/#comment-122293 Dirk W. Sabin Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:11:16 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=1300#comment-122293 Was it Mersheimer or Hornburg who recently pointed to a quote by George Ball to LBJ...when they were discussing the futility of their position. Ball reportedly told the President that there was no way they were ever going to "find enough asians to kill other asians"......or words to that effect. So much for the occupier standing down when the occupied stands up. What is really interesting is this stated notion that the U.S. will bypass the government in Kabul and concentrate on the taking the war to the Taliban. Again, so much for the occupied standing up so the Occupiers can leave. Under Bush, the War Party made things up as it went along with the aid of only rather crude Presidential Oratory. Now, they are making things up with a slightly elevated level of oratory. They are still making things up as they go along though and the term of art for this is, as I recall: "Creative Destruction". Was it Mersheimer or Hornburg who recently pointed to a quote by George Ball to LBJ…when they were discussing the futility of their position. Ball reportedly told the President that there was no way they were ever going to “find enough asians to kill other asians”……or words to that effect. So much for the occupier standing down when the occupied stands up. What is really interesting is this stated notion that the U.S. will bypass the government in Kabul and concentrate on the taking the war to the Taliban. Again, so much for the occupied standing up so the Occupiers can leave.

Under Bush, the War Party made things up as it went along with the aid of only rather crude Presidential Oratory. Now, they are making things up with a slightly elevated level of oratory. They are still making things up as they go along though and the term of art for this is, as I recall: “Creative Destruction”.

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