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Josh Marshall writes:

Many of us are familiar with the five stages of grieving identified three decades ago by the psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler Ross. As individuals face death or any great loss they go through five stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.

Those stages apply to the demise of major policy initiatives as well and we’re watching that happen now as the White House comes to grips with the collapse of its policy on Iraq.

The administration keeps seeing what the problem is but cannot bring itself to take the cure.

It’s stuck. It cannot get past stages one (denial) and two (anger). And the clock is ticking.

Well, perhaps we can help them work through to "acceptance."

Though the road to "acceptance" runs through "bargaining," and the way to bargain with this people seems to be with a two-by-four, a bat, or a large garden implement.