Refusal to Face Reality

Just the other Georgie was telling us how he's confident things will go well in Iraq. A few days before that, Chairman of the Joint chiefs of Staff, Gen. Peter Pace, said the following in response to a question:

Q: If you were to be asked whether things in Iraq are going well or badly, what would you say? How would you answer?

PACE: I’d say they’re going well. I wouldn’t put a great big smiley face on it, but I would say they’re going very, very well from everything you look at....

So today we find out the Gen. George Casey asked for more troops because of a “convergence of events, and danger, surrounding the third anniversary of the American invasion.”

Insisting it is a small number of troops and they will “only be staying a month,” the Pentagon is trying to minimize the contradiction of a needed troop increase when Georgie and Gen. Pace say things are going so well. Seems like an obvious reality is staring them in face and they just won't recognize it.
Posted on The Human Stain