You remember the Strategy for Victory? How about Stay the Course or When They Stand Up We’ll Stand Down ? What about Cheney’s light at the end of the tunnel or - my personal favourite - a few dead enders?

EJ Dionne has a nice article in TNR arguing that someone - 5 years later - needs to start defining what victory means .

Here is Petraeus’ memorable and candid account of where we stand: “We haven’t turned any corners, we haven’t seen any lights at the end of the tunnel. The champagne bottle has been pushed to the back of the refrigerator.” Tell me again: What does success look like?

Supporters of the war say its opponents are locked in the past, stuck on whether or not the war was a good idea in the first place. Whether the war was right or wrong, they say, it’s time to move on and focus on the future.

This has it backward. It’s the war’s backers and architects, including the president, who are trapped in the past. They are so invested in the original decision to invade Iraq that they won’t even consider whether the United States would be better off winding down this commitment, relieving our military of the war’s enormous burdens, and redirecting our foreign policy.

Won’t be long now. Simon will be so fat after eating all the cheese and bread and peanuts I left him that he’ll fall straight into that bucket!

You ever have that sensation where you feel like something is crawling up your leg?

It’s funny the stages you go through:

• There is obviously nothing crawling up my leg so it would be silly to look.
• There is something crawling up my leg but I am too scared to look.
• But that’s what I thought last time and, when I looked, I felt silly.

I finally looked. And there was something. He was just sitting on my foot looking back at me.

He got down when I went to get my camera.

I got as far as We are gonna win the league!

And we did.

Richard Dawkins doing what he does best - talking about science - to Lawrence Krauss at Stanford.

It’s in six parts. You can see the rest here.

I had this article published in Better Software a few years ago and it has been sitting over at Developer Testing since then.

I am giving it a new home here in case Developer Testing goes away. Who knows? Maybe it will bring a whole new audience to automated software testing?

“What could he possible be doing instead of his taxes?” you might wonder.

I have been going back through all of my old posts and making sure they are tagged correctly. What could be more important than that?

I have made it as far as July 2006 and Krauthammer claiming that it was ridiculous for liberals to simultaneous claim that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction and that the UN inspections should continue.

I still have over three hours before my taxes need to be done.

Nancy Pelosi uses WordPress! I wonder if she has an opinion on the tags vs categories controversy?

Saint Frank’s column today notices how we are all turning our back on Iraq, even the most passionate among us. But it’s not sustainable.

General Petraeus and Mr. Crocker define victory as “sustainable security” in Iraq. But both Colin Powell and Gen. Richard Cody, the Army’s vice chief of staff, said last week that current troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan are unsustainable and are damaging America’s readiness to meet other security threats. And that’s not all that’s unsustainable. An ailing economy can’t keep floating the war’s $3-billion-a-week cost. A Republican president intent on staying the Bush course will find his vetoes unsustainable after the Democrats increase their majorities in Congress in November. No war can be fought indefinitely if the public has irrevocably turned against it.