Programmer: To whom do you give the Pyrric victory? The 173rd or the Taliban?

That’s conditioned on whether we continue to devote 12 billion dollars a month and 140,000 troops to the Iraq sideshow for a hundred years, or shift back to the actual War on Terror in Afghanistan, not at all abating in courage for the loss we sustained, but even from our very anger gaining new force and resolution to go on with the war. And that, in turn, depends on the outcome of the November election.