Quote Originally Posted by Lemur
You're behind the curve, DA. "Emboldened" was the catchphrase last month. But assuming we're going to go along with last month's talking points (we'll just pretend it's March out of politeness), can you give us some sort of numerical figure for that emboldening? Are we talking a 20% jump of emboldedness? A 70% leap? I would like to know just how much emboldening we're talking about. And it's worth noting that staying in Iraq has an emboldening factor, as well. I want to see the emboldening curve for staying contrasted with the emboldening curve for leaving.

We need to get a lot less vague about this.
Good point. Personally I would like to see Navaros' value cesspool coefficient (VCC) factored in. Maybe if we weighed that for quantifiable 'reconstruction efforts' it would finally bring some clarity.