The Weekly Standard highlights Vice President Joe Biden's continuing war with math:
“Well, let me just say -- and to paraphrase Secretary Holbrooke, our Special Envoy, and I agree with his assessment after numerous visits to the region and throughout the country -- 5 percent of the Taliban is incorrigible, not susceptible to anything other than being defeated. Another 25 percent or so are not quite sure, in my view, the intensity of their commitment to the insurgency. And roughly 70 percent are involved because of the money, because of them being -- getting paid.”
What's with Biden's fascination with 70%? This is one area that the Administration can't afford to be wrong 30% of the time...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
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Must have been one of those "C is a gentlemen's grade" scholars back in his prep school days.
Amazing though how he just doesn't understand Islamic culture.
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