What would have to happen for the righties to consider the US effort in Iraq a lost cause?

[The Night Owl]

What would have to happen for the righties to consider the US effort in Iraq a lost cause?

[MNDemNY]

1. As soon as there is no more money to be made.

[Capn Sunshine]

20. Agreed -remove the profit

and that excursion will end so fast it will make your head spin.
Until then, we'll be there, and we will have burn pits as our hard earned money goes up in smoke.

[lynnertic]

2. Rush Limbaugh has to say it. n/t

[Warpy]

6. We have a winner!

Remember that we still have people who think Vietnam could have been won. Those are the people running this war, thinking that a redesigned military can be made light and quick enough to win against an indigenous guerrilla force, Rumsfeld's model.

That's what this is all about, you know, a laboratory for winning Vietnam.

Lamebawl will convince the cud chewing masses. Nothing will convince the experts.

[wyldwolf]

3. A Democrat in 2008

[grytpype]

5. I came here to say "A Democrat in 2008."

As soon as a Dem is in charge, they'll say Iraq is lost and it's the Dem's fault.

[More Than A Feeling]

16. I'm going to have a very difficult time restraining myself the first time I hear that one.

I hate pre-ordained frustration.

[racaulk]

21. That's exactly what I thought!

:toast:

[Double T]

4. The insurgents would have to attack and conquer America.........

before 'the righties' might realize Iraq was a lost cause.

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. If their kids were ordered to go and fight, it would end in a week

[shain from kane]

9. The draft. n/t

[bearfan454]

15. fucking eh ! nt

[TheBaldyMan]

18. That would involve some poor soul having sex with them *shudder*

[zanne]

8. I think it's a psychological issue

What if they admitted to themselves and others that Iraq was a lost cause, after all? They would also have to assume that their president is full of, well, poop. That would leave them with very little left to identify with and feel proud of. Who wants to be a loser? Just my humble opinion, of course.

[eleny]

10. 58,000 Americans died in Vietnam and they still didn't want to end it

They'll never want to give it up in Iraq.

[TheBaldyMan]

11. the neocon would never admit to a fault however glaring,

their ideology forbids it. It would mean that the ubermensch academics' politics would go down the crapper never to be seen again.

There is another reason, none of these chickenhawks are ever going to war in uniform, fighting is something other people's kids do.

[The Night Owl]

12. I love your sig! {EOM}

[More Than A Feeling]

13. Somebody better figure it out soon.

Otherwise in another generation we'll have a rancid new crop of neo-cons ready to try Iraq again somewhere else, on the theory that Iraq was just a "failure of willpower."

[bearfan454]

14. If they couldn't make any more money nt

[ieoeja]

17. Military defeat.

Unless our military were substantially wiped out in Iraq, they will see anything else as just giving up. And even a military defeat won't do much good as we could always send back more. Or at the very least nuke the hell out of Iraq.

Hell, these people worship Gen MacArthur despite his debacles in Bataan, New Guinea and North Korea. They are conservative after all. Once they decide something they will stick to it in the face of all reality.

Electing a Democratic president might do it. They start shouting, "there is no way we can win now with a Democrat at the helm". They can then support getting out of Iraq while blaming the failure on us.

[Perry Logan]

19. Just cut off their right-wing propaganda (Fox News, etc.).

[Totally Committed]

22. The requirement that they all serve at least a two-yr. tour-of-duty there?

:shrug:

It might do the trick.

TC