Tim Pawlenty's hypocritical "rule" on winning wars

From Crooks and Liars:

Tim Pawlenty apparently has a new rule. When the United States either goes to war with or invades another country, we or they depending on where you live, never lose. Sorry Tim but reality has a way of biting that sort of revisionist history right in it's ass. I would say why didn't John King bother to point out that obvious fact to you, but we are talking about John King here...lol. That man hasn't found a Republican he couldn't give a softball interview to since he made Wolf Blitzer's show Sunday into more of a joke than it was before he took it over.

KING: Let me move on to another issue, another big issue on the president's plate, where, in Congress, he's largely getting more Republican support than Democratic support, and that's Afghanistan.

George Will, a very influential conservative columnist wrote this earlier in the week, "Forces should be substantially reduced to serve a comprehensively revised policy. America should do only what can be done from offshore, using intelligence, drones, cruise missiles, air strikes, and small potent special forces units concentrating on the porous 1,500-mile border with Pakistan, a nation that actually matters."

Is it time for the United States to pull almost all of its troops from Afghanistan?

PAWLENTY: No. I recently returned from my fourth trip to Iraq and my second trip to Afghanistan. The administration has defined the mission in Afghanistan as to to disrupt and destroy the Taliban and Al Qaida and other terrorist forces that represent a threat to the national security interests of the United States.

We need to make sure that mission is successful. And the rule needs to be, when the United States goes to war, the United States wins, and so we need to make sure we do those things to complete that mission successfully, and that includes putting more troops into Afghanistan if needed.

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And, another rule should be that when Repugnican lawmakers start mouthing off about wars and rumors of wars, they should be immediately required to join the Armed Forces to help make their wet dreams of combat come true.

Someone give Pawlenty an enlistment form!

Oh, that's right. Georgi Bush skipped out on his commitment, during a war, and Dickie Cheney got five college deferments so he wouldn't have to fight.

An even better "rule" would be one that requires every lawmaker who votes for going to war, or prolonging a war, along with their sons and daughters, to immediately don a uniform and be transported to the thick of the fighting.