What's with all the china?

In the last week, I've heard new versions of the two main takes on the situation in Iraq and what we should do about it. We know the two main takes:

1. We can't leave now. We have to stay until we've restored order to the area, until democracy is in place, until the current administration is no longer in office.

Okay, so that last part is my little addition.

2. Get out. Get the hell out.

Again, my take. The kinder, gentler way is to say that we should withdraw as soon as possible. That we need to leave the business of rebuilding that nation to the people of that nation.

So now on to the new versions. They are the same old stories, the same scenarios, the exact same theories. Just repackaged. So we'll keep the same numbers.

1. "It's like broken china." Broken china that we broke. So as we learned in kindergarten, since we broke it, we should stay and fix it.

2. "It's like a bull in a china shop." You can imagine the chaos and destruction. Everywhere the bull turns, it breaks more china. It doesn't mean to. It may even try to stop. But it's a bull and it's china. It's inevitable. And the only way to stop it is to get the bull out. Get it the hell out.

Unfortunately, I don't actually remember who said what. And the explanations are in my own words. But you get the picture.

Apparently the mouths have gotten tired of talking about Iraq and what we do now. Apparently they're actually tired of saying the exact same thing all the time, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. So they were repackaging a bit last week. I guess even they get bored with the same story being in the news for so very long.