Dum Pendebat Filius

Wingnuts constantly frame the idea of US military withdrawal from Iraq as “surrender,” “retreat,” and/or “defeat.” They insist “we should win the war” instead.

But here’s the funny part: no wingnut has ever been able to describe what “winning the war” would actually look like. Not one of them has any idea what they actually want to see happen. They have a completely vague, albeit noble-sounding, idea — they want to see “victory.” That’s it. That’s all there is to it.

Go ahead and ask a wingnut to list specific conditions for a US victory in Iraq, and he won’t be able to do it.

Try asking a wingnut to list specific conditions for a US victory in the “Global War on Terror,” and he won’t be able to do that, either.

Do wingnuts think every guerrilla and “al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia” terrorist wannabe in Iraq will one day put down their AK-47s and ask to sign a peace treaty? Do they imagine Osama bin Laden will emerge from his Pakistani cave and tell the world he’s had enough, that every terrorist in the world gives up? Or will American soldiers just wake up one morning and find that all the Iraqi insurgents just decided to quit overnight? Will a terrible avenging God swoop down from heaven on the back of a Bald Eagle and char each and every Muslim Terrorist to ashes one fine day?

Who knows?

Wingnuts know one thing for certain: they really want to “win.” It’s just a shame they don’t have the slightest idea what that would actually mean.

To the wingnut, it seems victory is like pornography — “Maybe I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it.”