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...finished analysis. This happened in Iraq in mid-2003, when the CIA station in Baghdad sounded the alarm that the invasion was about to go very badly. When the White House and the Pentagon's civilian management read the Baghdad chief's conclusions, they raged, dismissing the analysis as "defeatist," even going so far as to accuse the chief of being a closet Democrat. The chief came home, but that did not stop his successors, CIA officers from the ranks, from sending in similar bad news every 60 days...
...seems defeatist to suggest that the best approach to the news of the rising deficit is resignation. It is an admission that there are no other alternatives left to shrink the gap. But, that is almost certainly the case. The Administration will have to be forgiven for its slip. The change in the numbers was outside its control...
...Iraq--and persuading it to give up its quest for a nuclear bomb--will require abandoning our efforts at regime change, muting our human-rights concerns and accepting an Iranian sphere of influence in the Persian Gulf. Obama's opponents will probably depict that kind of deal as defeatist, an admission of the limits of American power in the Middle East. But those limits already exist; the U.S. just hasn't acknowledged them...
...effect change via the bureaucratic channels of University Hall. While this is a fair critique that likely won’t be remedied until the implementation of Dowling II’s Report on College Governance, the perception that we are therefore incapable of improving student life is both defeatist and false. As the sole arbiter of the $75 Student Activities Fee, the UC must be ready to leverage its resources to minimize the impact of the crisis on the lives and activities of undergraduates...
...condition-based, and that's what the big fight was all about," McCain said, referring to his difference with Barack Obama over when and how to withraw U.S. forces from Iraq. Whereas Obama has sought to set a 16-month deadline for U.S. withdrawal, McCain has denounced that as defeatist and insisted that any decision to withdraw should be based on U.S. commanders' assessment of security conditions on the ground...