http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/06/25/avoiding-the-question/ n. the principle of good order<br /><br /> "Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity debased; how vilely is the function of a consul prostituted!" ~The Craftsman Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:02:13 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/06/25/avoiding-the-question/comment-page-1/#comment-11991 Eunomia » It Depends On What The Meaning Of “Fixed” Is Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:28:20 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/06/25/avoiding-the-question/#comment-11991 [...] Obama does a lot of backward walking these days, and so it’s not surprising that he keeps tripping all over his own promises.  Of course, there are two ways to look at this latest news: either Obama’s original antiwar stance was never very strong and any “refinements” he makes now are just small modifications to an originally weak position, or he has started yielding to the conventional wisdom that his position on Iraq has to change because of the “success” of the “surge” (whose success, as I have said before, might better described as failure).  This either confirms that he was never much of an antiwar leader, or it means that he will align himself more and more with the Washington consensus the closer he comes to being elected.     [...] [...] Obama does a lot of backward walking these days, and so it’s not surprising that he keeps tripping all over his own promises.  Of course, there are two ways to look at this latest news: either Obama’s original antiwar stance was never very strong and any “refinements” he makes now are just small modifications to an originally weak position, or he has started yielding to the conventional wisdom that his position on Iraq has to change because of the “success” of the “surge” (whose success, as I have said before, might better described as failure).  This either confirms that he was never much of an antiwar leader, or it means that he will align himself more and more with the Washington consensus the closer he comes to being elected.     [...]

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