Framing: Wrong Strategy or Wrong Implementation!

Every meet the guy in high school who is trying to do the grossest uber guy jokes to impress the girls? And when it fails, he works on a grosser "more impressive" joke? Well, the US is trying make friends and influence people by smacking them better with our military might. Republican thinking: Is Iraq unstable, well more military might applied longer should do the trick! People who believe this say "We are in this for the long haul" or "If we leave, it will get worse". Unhappy Republican thought goes like this "That the Iraq War was a good idea, but that we lost only because of botched implementation by the Bush administration"(from WayneNight's diary). Every Democrat should be clearly saying wrong strategy not wrong implementation!

That is why some of Democratic Presidential candidates are wrong. Why would Obama think that simply killing Osama bin Laden would do anything more than make everything extremely worse, he doesn't get the idea that use of military might be the wrong strategy not the wrong implementation. Democratic Presidential candidate Richardson had a much better idea of pull out all, then begin diplomatic solutions. If the American people buy into this is just the wrong implementation then we are in sticky tar baby war forever and Republicans have better chances to win. If the American people figure out that this is the wrong strategy then they more likely to vote for change with Democratic candidates and we are more likely to achieve peace in the Middle east.  Peace strategy is the successful strategy! Words matter! Every Democrat should be clearly saying wrong strategy not wrong implementation!

•  I agree, of course, but

  Republicans will frame back with "We need to hunt down and kill these terrorists, but the Democrats just want to help them get therapy."  Unfortunately their frame will win.

  The more immediate frame-war we are in concerns the surge.  We will try to say it has been unsuccessful.  The White House is already hard at work selling the idea that it has been less unsuccessful than all other alternatives.

  by illinifan17 on Tue Aug 21, 2007 at 07:47:29 AM PDT