September 20, 2004
Quote Of The Moment #0073
"At some point the Iraqis will get tired of getting killed and we’ll have enough of the Iraqi security forces that they can take over responsibility for governing that country and we’ll be able to pare down the coalition security forces in the country." -- Donald H. Rumsfeld
Presumably, "Iraqis" is a Freudian slip, and that he was referring to so-called "insurgents". Will the Resistance "at some point" "get tired" of "getting killed"?
Well, nobody knows for sure. But certainly the NLF (and the Vietnamese population generally) "got killed" in far greater numbers than have the Iraqis so far. (In fact, one can't help wonder if Robert McNamara uttered precisely this same sentence "at some point".) Moreover, the media is nothing if not abuzz these days with stories detailing the many ways in which the Resistance is kicking the Americans' asses.
So Rumsfeld's "some point" is seemingly still in the far-distant future.
Posted by Eddie Tews at September 20, 2004 10:30 AM
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