Wow, What Nonsense

“Bush is going to do anything he can do in his power not to lose,” Leslie Gelb, the former president of the Council on Foreign Relations and a onetime State Department official in the Carter Administration, said. “The worst challenge the next President will inherit will be to figure out how to lose in Iraq without the appearance or effects of losing.

From the New Yorker. Every week they have something that causes me to scratch my head. But I am not even sure if I know what this means. Let's see, the Hobson's choice is to lose while appearing to not lose and suffering the effects of losing, or to lose and appear to lose but not suffer the effects or ... never mind.

It remains a possibility that if one can discover a way to lose without the effects and appearance of losing then one has not really lost.