Surely you've heard of Pyrrhic victories?

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Surely you've heard of Pyrrhic victories?

Robert — 3/21/2006 12:59:11 AM (archived)

I'm with dtb, it's a reasonable question to ask. Iraq is supposed to be one battle in the war on terror, and so I'd also invoke the concept of winning the battle and losing the war.

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Grim milestone... - Tom Brosz - 3/20/2006 8:35:32 AM
- Or - Larry J - 3/24/2006 3:23:57 PM
- re: Grim milestone... - Publius - 3/23/2006 9:02:14 PM
  - Definition of casualty - Larry J - 3/24/2006 3:18:38 PM
    - clearly I intended "fatality"---thanks for pointing it out.... - Publius - 3/25/2006 1:27:52 PM
- While you're crunching numbers don't forget to add in the injured. - podrock - 3/21/2006 3:36:04 AM
- Don't bother Tom. - SDAI-Tech1 - 3/21/2006 2:54:12 AM
- re: Grim milestone... - R.L. - 3/20/2006 10:47:08 PM
  - re: Grim milestone... - Tom Brosz - 3/21/2006 3:40:42 AM
    - You really seem incapable of grasping the point... - R.L. - 3/21/2006 4:46:43 AM
      - re: You really seem incapable of grasping the point... - gbaikie - 3/21/2006 5:38:50 AM
        
        You really are clueless.... - R.L. - 3/21/2006 9:38:02 PM
- Driving up the mountain today... - R.L. - 3/20/2006 10:32:16 PM
- re: Grim milestone... - Doug Ellison - 3/20/2006 3:43:00 PM
  - "Personally, the number is 1." - Tom Brosz - 3/20/2006 7:31:44 PM
    - Surely you've heard of Pyrrhic victories? - Robert - 3/21/2006 12:59:11 AM
    - It was a fair question - dtb - 3/20/2006 11:59:58 PM
      - Wait wait wait...hold on there. - Lee - 3/21/2006 6:49:52 AM
        
        re: Wait wait wait...hold on there. - dtb - 3/21/2006 7:33:43 AM
      - If that strawman was any bigger, I could take it to the Burning Man festival. - Tom Brosz - 3/21/2006 5:03:07 AM
        
        I'm still trying to picture you at Burning Man! (n/t) - podrock - 3/23/2006 3:15:29 AM
        
        re: If that strawman was any bigger, I could take it to the Burning Man festival. - dtb - 3/21/2006 7:29:13 AM
        
        re: If that strawman was any bigger, I could take it to the Burning Man festival. - gbaikie - 3/21/2006 11:50:38 AM
        
        Taiwan IS an independent country. - Lee - 3/21/2006 3:14:15 PM
        
        re: Taiwan IS an independent country. - gbaikie - 3/21/2006 11:16:00 PM
        
        re: Taiwan IS an independent country. - REB - 3/22/2006 3:02:01 PM
      - For Tom the loss of life and wealth is not the issue... - R.L. - 3/21/2006 12:05:49 AM
        
        re: For R.L. and others the war is not the issue... - Tom Brosz - 3/21/2006 5:07:42 AM
        
        "The Iraqi civilian dead over the past three years is STILL far less than the average killed annually by Saddam over his regime, " - R.L. - 3/21/2006 9:42:53 PM
        
        WHAT BS - R.L. - 3/21/2006 9:41:12 PM
        
        does that annual average include the Iraq-Iran war and the gassing of the Kurds? (n/t) - Tony - 3/21/2006 7:37:02 PM
        
        Nice try, but I can see the boilerplate response a mile away. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 3/21/2006 8:22:19 PM
        
        Unless he's invading Iran or committing another attempted genocide, those average numbers are just plain bogus. (n/t) - Tony - 3/21/2006 9:38:14 PM
        
        Your faith in Saddam's future behavior apparently exceeds mine. - Tom Brosz - 3/21/2006 10:28:38 PM
        
        To keep up his historical average - Tony - 3/22/2006 6:39:28 PM
        
        "When we invaded Iraq, there was no active program." - Doug Ellison - 3/22/2006 9:57:24 AM
        
        We were told "the smoking gun could come in the form of a mushroom cloud" - R.L. - 3/22/2006 12:13:10 PM
        
        And now we know for certain that it won't. - Lee - 3/23/2006 6:19:41 AM
        
        Yeah, but you are a bigot and an idiot- so who really cares? - R.L. - 3/23/2006 10:26:55 AM
        
        Your inability to form an argument without resorting to name calling is amusing. - Lee - 3/23/2006 8:18:40 PM
        
        re: For R.L. and others the war is not the issue... - gbaikie - 3/21/2006 5:31:17 AM
    - avoiding the question - Doug Ellison - 3/20/2006 9:02:31 PM
    - Really? How? - Raoul - 3/20/2006 8:57:12 PM
      - re: Really? How? - gbaikie - 3/20/2006 9:11:26 PM
        
        re: Really? How? - Raoul - 3/20/2006 10:42:45 PM
        
        re: Really? How? - gbaikie - 3/21/2006 2:38:03 AM
- It shows that our strategy is faulted. - David F Mayer - 3/20/2006 2:32:20 PM

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