“The silly semantics about whether the surge was a "tactic" or a "strategy" were an absurd ruse; a pointless distraction from the broader point. These wars were wrongly decided, and wrongly prosecuted.”
— Chatman

“What's most disconcerting is that, in all of the talk about this crisis in the U.S. media, there's not one single, solitary word about slashing defence spending.”
— Stormcrow