Getting it wrong again and again and again and ...

With the General in charge of the surge saying it has only a 25% chance of success, you'd think someone would be giving some thought to what would happen in the quite likely event that it fails. But, as many bloggers besides me have noted, there is no Plan B -- or if there is, it is to continue with Plan A even if it fails. Here's BarbinMD at DailyKos on the subject.

It is truly hard to understand what leads to this kind of myopia on almost every subject this government addresses. It goes beyond simple incompetence. There's something that seems truly deliberate in their efforts to screw things up, from Iraq to Afghanistan to North Korea and Iran to Walter Reed and Veterans Affairs in general to Katrina to global climate change and on and on. It seems to me it even goes beyond having a flawed philosophy of governing, which is certainly a contributing cause. It reminds me of the person who gets a zero on a true-false exam where mere random selection would generally produce a score of fifty percent. You have to really try to get things as wrong as this administration has.