Learning to Eat Cheerios with a Fork
09.09.2013 at 02:09pm
Move over John Nagl: "A second senior official, who has seen the most recent planning, offered this metaphor to describe such a strike: If Assad is eating Cheerios, we're going to take away his spoon and give him a fork."
No wonder the policy debate about Syria has been so sensible… It is being run by people who think Assad eats Cheerios. No need for design here… we really understand this environment. Just like ’03.
That metaphor is almost frightening in it’s vapid stupidity
We are doomed.
See the Zinni video re. Balkans etc…. where he talks about the vagueness of these DoS terms.
Can’t find it on the internet but we used it in CA course curriculum.
We are truly, as William Lederer wrote, ‘A Nation of Sheep’
tom
And since Mattis (love the sinner, hate the sin) killed EBO, nothing matters except for the prime mover’s first action………..