Pat Buchanan - The Tea Party: America's last best hope?

iStock Analyst ^ | December 24, 2009 | Patrick J. Buchanan

[reasonisfaith]

We’re blurring some things here.

General morale is entirely separate from opinion regarding whether or not Iraq was a just war.

Morale of troops in Afghanistan is separate from morale of troops in Iraq.

There are ways to know what the troops think of the Iraq war other than being right there. And I am aware that support for the war has been significantly higher than 50%.

And another thing. You say Afghanistan could have been won, but now it’s somehow “winless.” A self-contradictory statement.

[Engineer_Soldier]

You say Afghanistan could have been won, but now it’s somehow “winless.” A self-contradictory statement.

If I were a football player that usually plays very well, but today I throw six interceptions against the Detroit Lions because I've had a horrible game plan, day, coach, whatever the reason, then it's not contradictory to say that we could have won but now the prospects are winless due to the missteps leading to it being 30 seconds left and no chance to win.

[reasonisfaith]

So it’s the clock that limits the game, you mean.

True. And Obama started the clock. So your argument tells us we’re losing because of Obama’s decisions.