So, timetables are good to push Welfare Queens into working by knowing

[BR_Parkway]

they were going to be cut off if they didn't have a job ~

BUT

Timetables for Iraqi soldiers are bad things, cause they will feel better if they think US troops will be there to prop them up forever?



I'm just not able to disconnect the logic in my brain long enough to understand how these people think any longer. I used to, I'd listen respectfully, even agree with parts of what they had to say. But now? It's like talking to someone that really should be in a straight jacket

[Solon]

1. Don't push a myth...

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-welfarequeen.htm

[Jed Dilligan]

2. The principle here is that US policy

follows the opposite of the truth. Timetables don't help welfare mothers get paid work, but they do make governments get off their tushies.

[coalition_unwilling]

3. Timetables are bad b/c with them the Resistance only has to

"wait us out" (whatever that means). This specious logic is so horrifyingly lame that it hardly merits the dignity of a reply.

In other words, using the BFEE's logic, we're getting out at some point, but we're not going to say exactly when, b/c that might give the Resistance an incentive to "stand down" (aka kill fewer American soldiers and Iraqi civilians) until we actually have left.

So we won't say exactly when we're leaving and the Resistance has no choice but to conclude that we aren't leaving any time soon so they had better engage in armed resistance to the occupation (aka kill more American soldiers and Iraqi civilians) in order to "drive us out."

Infuriating.

[nosillies]

4. good analogy

[heebeeGB]

5. I'm not sure...

...that using a social services timetable would be a good thing by which to plan a war withdrawal...

[Kurovski]

6. You make a good point.

but when someone can't get their shit together, they can't get their shit together. It's taking a right-wing philosophy for the purpose of making a point.

And who will be the one American most unable to get his shit together? He be George Bush.