Policy, Strategy and Tactics

The Dunce in Chief (and today the Vice Dunce in Chief) have repeatedly accused Democrats of not having a plan for Iraq. That the Democrats don't have a plan is perhaps not surprising. They probably don't know what the policy is. Policy relates to objectives? Can anyone tell me what the objective is here today? Dastardly Dick Cheney today said we were in Iraq because it is the right thing to do!??? That doesn't seem to be a policy at all. Herein lies the problem. You can't have a plan if you don't have an objective. I guess this is why this war has been dragging on.

The Dunce in Chief was supposed to be the CEO President. You'd think in this day and age that would mean he would have read a couple of management books, or at least attended a couple of business courses in college. If he had even the most rudimentary acquaintenance with management he would know the difference between policy, strategy and tactics. Policy is the objective; strategy is the plan to achieve the objective; and tactics are the physical things we do in support of the strategy. He talks alot about strategy, but continually uses it interchangeably with tactics. Notably, he recently noted that we continually changed tactics to address changes in the strategy of the insurgency in Iraq. While that may be appropriate in some cases, it implies we actually have no strategy for victory. And the lack of a defined objective re-emphasizes that.

If the objective is to stay in Iraq because it is the right thing to do, what strategy could the generals or the Democrats put against that?