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...Pyrrhic Victory for State...
Given Haig and Burt's goal of preserving some hope that an agreement might be negotiated, the State Department had achieved only a temporary and perhaps Pyrrhic victory over the Pentagon civilians...
Either way, the prospect is unsettling for the White House. Even if Reagan successfully vetoed the congressional action, his victory would be Pyrrhic. Matters probably would not get that far: the Administration has decided not to expend much more political capital defending its policy. Although Reagan publicly appears to be dug in on his Lebanese policy, advisers privately say that he is actively looking for an exit, even if it means abandoning Gemayel. Promised a top adviser: "If Don Rumsfeld comes back and says there is no way Gemayel can put everything together, Reagan will...
...intervention of Allied Corp. did disentangle the mess a bit, but for Bendix and Marietta the end of the match marked a pyrrhic victory at best. Agee's Bendix had become somebody else's property, and Marietta had lost a month's time and resources while surrendering much of its stock to third parties. The only winners, it seems, were the speculators fortunate enough to have their transactions fall on the right side of the two companies' stock caprices...
Perhaps all victories feel Pyrrhic, the winner's sense of triumph sucked empty by the sight of bodies heaped like trash, herds of prisoners with hollow faces, children coughing in the rubble. Since every war winds up like this, nothing better could be expected of the latest two, the fighting coming to conclusions, or near conclusions, in the past week. Still, for several sides, things turned out pretty well. Britain closed in on Port Stanley, and won back the Falkland Islands. Israel closed in on Beirut, and may yet win safety for its northern borders. Lebanon, after its period...