1.0 link 34510 <![CDATA[At Last, An Iraq Policy That Rhymes]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marty-kaplan/at-last-an-iraq-policy-th_b_34510.html Just when you thought it would take the Baker-Hamilton commission to rescue us from the unacceptable alternatives of "stay the course" and "cut and run," Defense Department officials have come up with genuinely euphonious options: "Go Big, Go Long, Go Home."

Not only does this formulation satisfy the media's need for snappy shorthand; it caters to our reptile brainstem's longing for rhythm and rhyme. Three iambs, those three go's, the subtle prosody of "long" and "home": finally, there's a worthy successor...

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