Why is a "timetable for withdrawal" always "artificial" to pugs? (MTP)

[Subdivisions]

Do they have any concept at all of setting a date certain for withdrawal and then actually withdrawing by that date?

Why do they always tack the word "artificial" to any talk of a withdrawal date?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Cuz it would interfere with the "artificial war profiteering" that

many of them have benefitted from. Tell me I'm wrong.

[Berry Cool]

2. "Artificial" doesn't mean "fake" to them. It means "withdrawing

before WE want to." *sigh*

[radfringe]

3. because they do not live in reality? n/t

[vixengrl]

4. Well, I think the response to the claim of "artificial"

timetables might be, "Fine, then when will we know what a success looks like--what do *you* consider 'real'?" War isn't fought for war's sake--there should be definable goals, and what I hear from the GOP does not sound goal-oriented. It's King Canute looking at an ebbing tide and saying, "See, there's my progress."