It is hard to imagine a more rhetorically vapid and painfully wrongheaded phrase than "staying the course" in the Iraq War. Imagine careening 100 miles-per-hour toward a very large brick wall. Would we look tough and resolute by insisting on staying the course? No, I'm afraid we would simply look foolish.
What made Alexander The Great, Napolean, Grant and Patton such military marvels was their ability and willingness to see the entire chess board and to adjust course as conditions and contingencies warranted. Staying the course with a losing proposition is hardly ever the right approach, Mr. President.
What made Alexander The Great, Napolean, Grant and Patton such military marvels was their ability and willingness to see the entire chess board and to adjust course as conditions and contingencies warranted. Staying the course with a losing proposition is hardly ever the right approach, Mr. President.