[IamConservative]

You use the way we are adapting to circumstances, redoubling our efforts,

Seems like you agree. "Redoubling your efforts" and "adapting to circumstances" are not the same thing. "Redoubling your efforts" generally means working twice as hard doing the same thing. Adapting to circumstances - doing something different - is exactly what I am advocating - we need to be more agressive in prosecuting the WOT in Iraq.

Nowhere in my comments will you find an explicit or implied meaning of "lost" or "losing", you inferred that all on your own because you were overly excited about labeling someone with a different viewpoint as a defeatist.

[brazzaville]

Good afternoon.
""Redoubling your efforts" and "adapting to circumstances" are not the same thing."

I say that they can be, and in this case, are exactly the same, as we have always been doing what we are now going to be doing only with more people and more effort. The result will be a higher body count of Jihadis and either a stronger Iraqi government or a new one.

You're right that you don't implicitly say that we are losing. Another FReeper did but you haven't. As to implication, what are you implying when you say that the war is not being fought correctly?

This is a good thread. I'll ponder all this while the dentist is torturing me and get back to you later.

Michael Frazier