When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Posted by Mark Thoma on Friday, September 14, 2007 at 12:24 AM in Iraq | Permalink | TrackBack (0) | Comments (8)
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Very good Mark!
You should of course put a questionmark at the end.
Posted by: reason | Link to comment | Sep 14, 2007 at 03:01 AM
First thought it was the integral of all the lies told by Bush & Co.
Posted by: ken melvin | Link to comment | Sep 14, 2007 at 05:21 AM
When the "surge" was announced, wasn't there a lot of press saying that this was not sustainable? The surge couldn't have been bigger for the same reason - the US military is stretched to the limit...
therefore, there is no withdrawal, a reduction in troop levels was anticpated all along.
Posted by: btgraff | Link to comment | Sep 14, 2007 at 06:49 AM
=)
Posted by: Hafiz | Link to comment | Sep 14, 2007 at 07:12 AM
An don't we all appreciate the free-handedness of this illustration? Isn't that more than half the charm: there is no intervening Excel/Powder Point "tools"?
Ok, a spike in personal engagement...against all that alienation, starting with rules of engagement (like this typing for instance...and not like paine's poetic [ignore his rebuttals] narrative).
Posted by: calmo | Link to comment | Sep 14, 2007 at 09:42 AM
"...no intervening Excel/Powder Point"
ah yes, "powder" point. here is a fun article about it on edward tufte's site.
Posted by: supersaurus | Link to comment | Sep 14, 2007 at 10:30 AM
Neat summation.
Perhaps we might hope to decrease the pace of the increase in violence. Doesn't feel like being a part of the majority opinion in a democracy.... will we ever get our country back? Will they (Iraqis) ever get theirs back?
Posted by: Robinia | Link to comment | Sep 14, 2007 at 10:54 AM
Are you sure that's not the Laffer curve?
One of the contributors to Tyler Cowan's blog said he's been teaching the Laffer curve for many years to his classes. Is this grounds for educational malfeasance?
Posted by: robertdfeinman | Link to comment | Sep 14, 2007 at 11:51 AM