Post-Debate Aside on Defeatist Terminology

While reading through other sites for their debate opinions, I came across this line from Blogs of War‘s live blogging by John Little:

8:20pm CST – Is it just me or is “Win the peace” one of the most annoying phrases of all time.

Well, I’ll rank it right up there with “exit strategy,” a phrase I’ve stated my opinion on previously.

EDIT: Yes, you can plan to “win the peace,” you can plan on every single contingency. However, war is chaos and perfect planning for peace would require paralysis of action. The same with having an exit strategy short of absolute victory. Win the campaign, deal with the actual results; win the war, achieve the established goals and make the peace and exit strategy desired.