Defeat

It makes sense that Freepers' definition of defeat for Obama would be as expansive as their definition of victory under Bush. Witness McChrystal's plan to try and make peace with the Taliban:

RocketMan1 keeps it all undramatic:

So, under GWB we drive back the Taliban and help a fledgling (albeit now possibly corrupt) democracy set itself up, and after just one freaking year of Zer0bummer’s dithering and incompetence, we are merely hoping to leave Afghanistan with the Taliban back in control so they can restart the beaheadings in the soccer stadium?!

NO .. FREAKING .. WAY!!

TexasFreeper2009 seems to have mixed up the opium sharia-guys of the Taliban with Al Queda.

how do you negotiate peace with someone who’s only goal in life is to cut off your head?

An earthquake just needs to swallow Washington whole.

Course, to Freepers, Sadam Hussein was also in Al Queda, so this isn't too surprising.

jeltz25 knows what the general really means:

If true Obama needs to relieve the General of command tomorrow.

You can’t have your leading General saying he’s tired of fighting. Completely unacceptable. McChrystal doesn’t even do any fighting. If he was some NCO in the field I could understand, but for someone like him to say that is amazing.

If a general isnt' killin' he isn't generallin!

myknowledge has an interesting theory about the reasons for this new strategy:

Guess who's also dealing with the Afghan heroin?The CIA.

They have their own devious agenda for the heroin.

kamikaze2000 knows what it means when the killing stops:

I hope this doesn’t happen. It would be a victory for the Taliban and a defeat for the US. No other way to spin it really.

The Taliban would soon take over the country again and go back to the old, pre-2001 ways.

mkjessup has an analogy that really sums up the silliness of the Freepers:

Can anyone imagine General Omar Bradley, or General George Patton, just to name two of our greatest military geniuses, suggesting in late 1944 that it was ‘time to discuss peace with the Nazi Party leadership, and work on plans to bring them into a new German government’?

This is no way to fight a war.

I've heard about always fighting the last war, but this is ridiculous!