John at Blogenlust nails it.
And of course, this has been the problem all along, hasn’t it? A significant number of Americans have a lust for war and an unrivaled intolerance for sacrificing anything on behalf of warmongering, including and especially the lives of those fighting it. There was probably a way to fight this war that might have meant losing 2,000 soldiers in the first month, but also meant a much shorter endeavor. Instead, we’ve fought it half-assedly, trying to minimize casualties (on our side, anyway), and now we’ve still got 2,000 dead soldiers and no end in sight.
We want a war with no death, we want our blood lust satiated while spilling none of our own, and we want an empire without anyone noticing. Oh, yeah—and no taxes.
(As ridiculous as that sounds, that’s exactly what Bush has tried to deliver to the vast swath of America who wants exactly that.)
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