Quote of the day

On ABC's This Week this morning:

"You can take a tactical success and misread it like we did in Vietnam."  -- John F. Kerry

Kerry was alluding to the clear difference between strategic success and tactical success.  An example of a tactical change was our decision to encourage Sunni insurgents to fight al Qaeda.  An example of a strategic change was Bush's troop surge.  The two are completely different from one another.  Besides, we are not even surging in Anbar, where that tactical change has been happening.

In other words, don't look at a tactical success and interpret it as a strategic success.

Comments

[Arlen]

Kerry was on This Week, not Meet The Press.

[Chief Editor: Todd]

Thanks for the correction, Arlen. I changed it.