Doubling Down in Iraq
Nov 12, 2006 Politics, War On Terror
A tip of the hat to Glenn Reynolds over at Instapundit.com for the link to this Weekly Standard article in which Bill Stuntz explains that Iraq isn’t an unwinnable war, it’s instead a war we’ve chosen not to win.
As a poker player, it was interesting to see him make the comparison of the war to a card game:
War is not poker; the stakes in Iraq are much higher than a little money or a few chips. But war’s psychology bears some resemblance to a well-played game of cards. The only way Americans lose this war is to fold. That seems likely to be the next move, but it is the last thing we should do. Far better to call and raise. Our cards are better than theirs, if only we have the nerve to play them.
