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Governors confront President Bush and General Pace inquiring about any back-up plans for movement in Iraq. What they discovered may not be all too comforting to digest. In a nutshell, I think the attitude of "there is no 2nd place, just first-place losers" is not too far off from the reality that was discovered during the meeting.

During a White House meeting last week, a group of governors asked President Bush and Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, about their backup plan for Iraq. What would the administration do if its new strategy didn’t work? The conclusion they took away, the governors later said, was that there is no Plan B. “I’m a Marine,” Pace told them, “and Marines don’t talk about failure. They talk about victory.”

That’s admirable to have that can-do attitude about no failure, only victory. Unfortunately, the reality of this world requies for certain assumptions or unforeseen events that need to be taken into account – does it not?