[Vermont Lt]

Why are people surprised. The country has the attention span of a gnat. Remember all the folks bashing the NYPD just weeks before 9-11.

9-11 is a distant memory. The intellectual half life of anything in this country is about ten minutes.

People forget that it was a long time before we made any significant strike in WWII. People forget that it was 1943 before we invaded Africa. Nearly two years after Pearl Harbor.

People forget that we went after the easy, soft underbelly of both Japan and Germany back then. Has any of these idiots stopped thing wonder why we did not invade Europe in 1942? We would have gotten our asses kick.

Why don't we go after Osama? Because he is, for the most part, irrelevant without the funding and state sponsorship. We dont go after Korea because they will nuke us. We dont go after Iran, because they will put up a more formidable defense. We take this one step at a time. You dont start climbing a mountain at the steepest point. You start at the bottom and work your way up.

However, the protestors don't get it, they dont want to get it, and they will never get it.

[RobbyS]

To be more specific, in 1943 we went against Italy, the weakest of the Axus Powers FIRST. Given that we have a ground base in Bahrain and, it seems, one in Turkey, this is the place to put the pressure first. Is not the military miximum: concentrate one's forces at the weakest point?