When will reality intrude?

[Lanya]

 via Unqualified Offerings
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The pattern has always been:

1. Declare that we must stay in Iraq to prevent some Bad Thing from happening.

2. Bad Thing happens anyway.

3. Declare that we must stay in Iraq to prevent some Worse Thing from happening.

4. Worse Thing happens anyway.

5. Reiterate sequence.

At no point does the “Sensible Center” consider that the previous failures implicate our ability to fulfill the new mission, which is always paradoxically grander in scale while being a retreat from previous ambitions.
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http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2006/12/12/5706

[Plane]

What exactly is the alternative being offered?


Is this writer recomending that we act without examination of consequences?

[Lanya]

I think the person's post speaks for itself. 
No, I don't think they are advocating not thinking before doing.