Comments on: One Down, Seventeen To Go http://www.1115.org/2006/07/13/one-down-seventeen-to-go/ west coast cap peelers Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:48:15 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: sarabeth http://www.1115.org/2006/07/13/one-down-seventeen-to-go/comment-page-1/#comment-16274 sarabeth Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:47:03 +0000 http://www.1115.org/2006/07/13/one-down-seventeen-to-go/#comment-16274 You and I may think "hope" is the right word under the circumstances prevailing in Iraq, but what we have here is the governments of the jaunty twins, George and Tony, making such a tepid statement on an occasion where rhetoric is the only permitted mode of speech. You and I may think “hope” is the right word under the circumstances prevailing in Iraq, but what we have here is the governments of the jaunty twins, George and Tony, making such a tepid statement on an occasion where rhetoric is the only permitted mode of speech.

]]> By: cristian http://www.1115.org/2006/07/13/one-down-seventeen-to-go/comment-page-1/#comment-16271 cristian Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:51:56 +0000 http://www.1115.org/2006/07/13/one-down-seventeen-to-go/#comment-16271 <blockquote>One Down, Seventeen To Go</blockquote> Now, all the thousand-mile journeys start with a symbolic first small step, don't they? (We'll just choose to ignore, for the moment, how long is this journey going to take...) <blockquote>...we were not willing to say that we are confident... </blockquote> But are we? Considering the current state of the security countrywide, "<strong>hope</strong>", though extremely weak, sounds the right term. Had they said "the governments [...] <strong>are confident</strong>", would that not have begged the question: "what are they based on?" ? So, then, the main question remains: what is the best way to actually build that realistic confidence?

One Down, Seventeen To Go

Now, all the thousand-mile journeys start with a symbolic first small step, don’t they? (We’ll just choose to ignore, for the moment, how long is this journey going to take…)

…we were not willing to say that we are confident…

But are we?

Considering the current state of the security countrywide, “hope“,
though extremely weak, sounds the right term. Had they said “the governments
[...] are confident“, would that not have begged the question: “what are they based on?” ?

So, then, the main question remains: what is the best way to actually build that
realistic confidence?

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