Andrew Swallow wrote:
> What Congress is finding out is that the voters what them to stop the 
> war *By WINNING it*. 

Actually, according to the latest polls, that's not true.

But even if it were true, so what? The war is unwinnable, and no amount 
of wishing will change that. We are never going to see happy, smiling 
G.I.s handing out Hershey bars to happy, smiling Iraqi children. We are 
never going to see the entire population of Iraq settling down to become 
good citizens of an enlightened liberal democracy. The war in Iraq is 
going to last at least another hundred years (with interludes of "peace" 
imposed by tyranny) whether we're in it or not, and considerations of 
Realpolitik even prevent us from picking one side that we'd like to win.

In the meantime, it has probably grown too late to prevent a hundred 
years of another war, a war between barbarians, as represented by the 
Islamist extremists, and civilization itself. (And it doesn't help 
America's position, in particular, that she has enemies within, in the 
form of "Christian" barbarians, whose treasonous agenda entails burning 
the Bill of Rights, and, indeed, undoing the entire Enlightenment. 
Fortunately, mere tribalism has prevented them from realizing how very 
much in common they have with the external enemy, and we can can hope 
that it will continue to do so for some time to come.)
-- 
John W. Kennedy
"Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, and you may grow like That. 
...you may come to think a blow bad, because it hurts, and not because 
it humiliates.  You may come to think murder wrong, because it is 
violent, and not because it is unjust."
   -- G. K. Chesterton.  "The Ball and the Cross"
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