Our three options for Iraq, in Pentagon-speak: “Go Big,” “Go Long,” and “Go Home.”
Late Update: Regular TPM Reader MB registers a complaint of mock-outrage: “How you could post a link to that WaPo article without letting loyal readers know that our defense officials are likening potential war strategies to the dance moves of a boy touching, blanket dangling, plastic surgery disaster is truly beyond me.”
Fair enough. Here’s the sentence from the WaPo story: “That combination plan, which one defense official called “Go Big but Short While Transitioning to Go Long,” could backfire if Iraqis suspect it is really a way for the United States to moonwalk out of Iraq — that is, to imitate singer Michael Jackson’s trademark move of appearing to move forward while actually sliding backward.”
