"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Petraeus: ?We?ll Make Another Pointless Change by Next Summer?
""Petraeus did propose speeding up slightly the withdrawal of 30,000 U.S. troops deployed in this year's 'surge? of force levels in Iraq, pulling out about 2,000 this month and the rest by next summer." These stupid pantomimes would be almost laughable if the consequences weren't so tragic."
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