Triangulating the War

I plan to read this, the latest installment of Victor David Hansen, later.



Update: I have now read the article, and it is a good one:



All this we cannot see at the present as we in our weariness lament the losses of almost 1,100 combat dead and billions committed to people who appear from 30-second media streams to be singularly ungracious and not our sort of folk. We dwell on unmistakable lapses, never on amazing successes — just as we were consumed with Afghanistan in its dark moments, but now ignore its road to success. But never mind all this: The long-term prospects are still as bright as things seem gloomy in the short-term — but only if we emulate our grandfathers and press on with the third Middle East election in the last six months.



Most of the war's opponents, if not all of them, seem to want perfection. They wanted us to topple Sadaam, install a functioning democratic government (with support of 100% of the Iraqi people), rebuild the infrastructure, and extinguish the "insurgency," all in just two weeks without the loss of any US soldier. Them seem incensed that we have not done this. They seem incredulous at the fact that in war there are mistakes. They fail to understand how we could not have forseen every unforseeable situation.

Who is the one who needs a clue? We have executed this war with unbelieveable efficiency. We have done 4 times as much as all other nations on the planet combined could have done. VDH astutely analyzes the situation. Nothing the US could have done would have been acceptable to the dove-ocracy of the World left. My take is that the problem is not the war. The problem is that it is the US fighting the war. I don't want to see any American GI's lose their lives. Then again, I don't want to see any American citizens lose there lives. I am sure that had we not gone to Iraq, we would have enventually seen the lose of many American lives.