Up the Escalator

Week Three is underway. Every goatherd on the planet knows that the way to beat America is simply to outlast her: "We have all the time," as I quoted yesterday. What is the precise point at which a swift surgical strike (which the US can do) becomes a war of attrition (which the US always loses)? Well, you don't want to be typing "Week Twenty-Three is underway..." Given all the dissent in our comments section, I thought today I would pose a few thought experiments. "I'm just asking questions," as Tucker likes to say: ~First, for the two-points-in-Iowa crowd, is...