For those keeping score on overseas operations:

Pre-January 2009: This is necessary.

Post-January 2009: Quagmire, pull out.

If you hold this opinion (*cough* Beck *cough*), every word you utter henceforth is like a turd dropping into my drink. You’ve sold out and lost any chance of receiving a fair hearing from me.

The same goes for those who hold the reverse opinion.

Shit, even Cindy Sheehan, a person I hold in very low regard, can manage the conviction to remain consistent in her views.