A simple answer to those who say "Stay The Course"

[Ian David]

To those who say "stay the course," or say that we need to stay there until we stabilize the country, or that it would "dishonor" those who have already died if we were to redeploy to the periphery before "the job is done," I have a simple answer:

Sing:
"I don't know why, she swallowed the fly. Perhaps she'll die."

I think they'll remember...

There Was An Old Woman

<snip>

There was an old woman who swallowed a cow,
I don't know how she swallowed a cow!
She swallowed the cow to catch the goat,
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old woman who swallowed a horse,
She's dead—of course!
http://www.poppyfields.net/poppy/songs/oldwoman.html

[uppityperson]

1. Short, sweet and very funny.

I use niagra falls image, maybe I will start singing this instead.

[Yoda Yada]

2. A simple answer...

... to those who say "Stay the course"...

Remember the :shrug: TITANIC :shrug: ?

[gratuitous]

3. That's good

Or, "stay what course"? What's the strategy? How will we know when we've "won"? What are our objectives? What can the U.S. reasonably expect to do on its own and not depend on someone else to do (e.g., the Iraqis instituting their own government acceptable to the neocons that puts fundamentalist Christians in power)?

The devil, as always, lurks in the details. Meaningless catch-phrases don't a course of action make. Even when they're repeated over and over again.

[Ian David]

4. Run into the middle of the highway and "stay the course"

Because cowards cut and run, Marines never do.

So, just stay there in the middle of the busy highway.

Stay the course.

And maybe give a couple people the finger, too.

[derby378]

5. "Stay the course?" WHAT course?

"They should stay until the job is done." WHAT job?

"They're fighting the War on Terror." WHOSE terror? Theirs - or ours?

[Ian David]

6. If we can fight them there so we don't have to fight them here...

...does that mean we can let them fight each other so they can't fight us?

I mean, is that any more selfish than saying, "We're going to have a war in their country so we won't have one in our country."

I'm sure the Iraqi civilians don't mind us "fighting them over there," even though our "over there" is their "over here."

[derby378]

7. Actually, Nero is spending our tax money over THERE...

...so he doesn't have to spend it over HERE.

:rofl:

[Ian David]

8. He's borrowed $30,000 from every American...

and blown it on Hummers and grenade launchers.

(Paraphrasing Conan O'Brien)