"Cut and run" or "Triumph of Will"

Jerry, you are a man of many clichés, your thinking
can be crippled by them.

Others that could be used is

"strategic withdrawal"

"cutting one's loses"

or even "getting out while the getting is good".

Those who buy and sell equities know that you don't
ride a poorly performing one down to zero. In fact,
before buying one should make exit plans, at what
point one gets out admitting that one has made an
error.

So what is the "exit plan". Kissinger, one of the most
over rated Secretaries of State that US has had, advises
that "victory" is the only exit strategy. And he orchestrated
the exit from Vietnam! He also talked about lacking "will".
In Vietnam, Ford's not going back in, one supposes, because
he would not have had the nation behind him. So "Operation
Eaglepull" terminated the American presence in Vietnam.

It is curious that Kissinger should talk about will. Its
use reminds one of the famous film, "Triumph of Will".

Look it up, if the reference escapes you.

Jerry Okamura...

I believe that whenever you cut and run, you create even bigger long term
problems. Whenever, you do cut and run, you have demonstrated to your
adversary that they can "win" simply by inflicting enough pain, for a long
enough time, and we will leave. And everytime we do cut and run, we
reinforce that message, and give reasons to our future adversaries that the
tactic may work for them as well. So, over the long term, by cutting the
running, you actually cost more American soldiers to die, not less.

Have a counter argument to offer?