Chimpy's solution to Iraq is a no-brainer: without a strategy to actually 'win' the war, he just plans to stick it out until it becomes somebody else's problem. Meanwhile, looks like the rumors are true and the Taliban are making a dramatic resurgence in Afghanistan and Madeline Albright points out the obvious - that Bush's hubris in conducting the War on Terror has made the world a far more dangerous place.

I’ve been seeing quite a number of branding attempts cropping up from bloggers trying to counter the ever-so-eloquent, “cut and run.” A lot of them are pretty good, though none seem to have caught on among establishment Democrats. I do think you have to score one for Kerry though:

Kerry: No, what it does is provide the only opportunity for success. Stay the course is not a plan. And what this administration wants is to have a fake debate, as usual. There, there, you hear the drumbeat on every television show from every commentator, cut and run, cut and run, cut and run, cut and run. That's their phrase.

They've found their three words, they love to do that, and they're gonna try to make the elections in November a choice between "cut and run" or "stay the course." That's not the choice. My plan is not "cut and run." Their plan is "lie and die." And that's what they're doing...Our plan is very simple. It's re-deploy to win the war on terror. Change to succeed....

Video here.

In other news, looks like Japan might be the latest member of the 'coalition' to 'cut and run'. Guess they got tired of playing stooge to Team America.