The common people who support our wars are starting to remind me of gambling addicts.

I say "common" because I am not speaking about the top-level decision makers who I think are beyond any interest in altruistic goals and are evaluating everything from a power-politics standpoint.

But the regular people who have supported Vietnam, Korea, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan and whatnot. It's almost like it's becoming an obsession to "get it right this time". "This time" we have more troops, a better strategy, better equipment, better goals, a better coalition, just give it a little bit of more time, we will have our "perfect war" eventually where everything turns out the way we want, just give some more troops, and some more money, just one more round..... we can't leave now after we have lost so much already... just one more round........

Who keeps sneaking them more?

either way, they got nuthin.'

k&r

and just feel that we lost the "will to win," as Reagan once said.

It's as if some cannot accept the fact that no matter how powerful or sophisticated or expensive our weaponry, there are some conflicts we simply will not win.

America should not be the global police or enforcer. We've done this in Central America, in South America, in Indochina... at a certain point something has to give with our foreign policy. We've killed more civilians than we've ever saved with our special forces invasions, coups, and propping up of dictatorships.

Wouldn't you say?

The truth is TPTB have inched us over to the right for so long there is almost no real left anymore and people don't even see it. Watching anti-war people get hammered on what is supposedly a progressive site tells me much...