Abandon all unwinnable wars
Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Gary M. Galles
05/29/07
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid triggered a flurry of partisan attacks and counterattacks with his statement that ‘this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything.’ Perhaps most striking about his assertion that we ought to abandon rather than escalate a war that cannot be won is how inconsistently it is applied. There are a host of government sponsored domestic ‘wars’ to which that same argument applies, yet they get escalated rather than ended...
http://www.mises.org/story/2561
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Gary M. Galles
05/29/07
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid triggered a flurry of partisan attacks and counterattacks with his statement that ‘this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything.’ Perhaps most striking about his assertion that we ought to abandon rather than escalate a war that cannot be won is how inconsistently it is applied. There are a host of government sponsored domestic ‘wars’ to which that same argument applies, yet they get escalated rather than ended...
http://www.mises.org/story/2561
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 30. Mai, 15:36
