New Strategy In Afghanistan
Faced with declining poll numbers among middle class Americans and increasing pressure from the left wing of his party, President Obama yesterday took what administration officials are calling a “a decisive stance of resolute vacillation” on the subject of the war in Afghanistan during his speech at West Point.
In what White House spokesman Robert Gibbs called “the most significant military decision ever,” President Obama simultaneously announced the deployment of 30,000 new troops to Afghanistan and their subsequent withdrawal date of 2011, a tactic insiders are calling “The Verge.”
Gibbs explained the moniker.
“As we kicked around names for this new Afghan initiative,” he said, “we knew we needed something that accurately captured the brilliant dichotomy of build-up and withdrawal, of charge and retreat. And we knew it would be particularly kick-ass if it rhymed with ‘Surge.’ So we are calling it “The Verge.”
Gibbs went on to note: “A multitude of factors come into play when making this kind of decision, factors based not on the painfully outdated notion of ‘realities on the ground’, but on the much more complicated and subtle interplay among human dignity and environmental decency, allocation of political capital, and polling of likely voters.”
The New Nuance…
- Aggie
RB said,
December 8, 2009 @ 8:25 pm
What about “the surgexit”, or “the surgender”?
Carol said,
December 8, 2009 @ 8:41 pm
I didn’t check the link first, and sadly enough, I found this story completely believable.
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
December 9, 2009 @ 7:37 am
Carol,
The Nose On Your Face is a humor site, as you discovered. With this administration, it is difficult to tell hard news from comedy.
My mother always told me to find something good to say about someone and I just found it with President Obama. I can’t tell the humor from the policy stuff; he’s endlessly entertaining! Thank you, President Obama!
- Aggie