Failure is an orphan. . .

Failure is an orphan. . .: "As John F. Kennedy once said, ‘Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan‘:

Faced with almost daily reports of sectarian carnage in Iraq, congressional Republicans are shifting their message on the war from speaking optimistically of progress to acknowledging the difficulty of the mission and pointing up mistakes in planning and execution."

...

"And the K word, the Bush signature for incompetence, even comes up:

‘It’s like after Katrina, when the secretary of homeland security was saying all those people weren’t really stranded when we were all watching it on TV,’ said Rep. Patrick T. McHenry (R-N.C.). ‘I still hear about that. We can’t look like we won’t face reality.’

These are Republicans, mind you.

Even the neoconservative warmongers who conceptualized this fiasco are running down the ropes to the dock. Only they are complaining that we haven’t imbued sufficient frightfulness into our Middle East policy; attack a few more countries, put more troops in the region, and kill more Muslims and these pesky Islamists and other hostile regimes will finally see things our way."

(Via Martini Republic.)