Thursday, April 26, 2007

Must Read: Why Then, Our Enemies Will Have Won

Mark Thoma channels Nancy Youssef of McClatchey (link):

The administration is not counting deaths from car bombings in the Iraqi civilian death counts used to assess whether the surge is working because, as Bush argues, "If the standard of success is no car bombings or suicide bombings, we have just handed those who commit suicide bombings a huge victory."

Isn’t this the way Burt Reynolds keeps score on Jeopardy?

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