[Luke Skyfreeper]

It seems to me that when there is reason to go to war, it should be self-evident. The Secretary of State should not need to convince a skeptical world with satellite photos of a couple of Toyota pickups and a dumpster.

Should be, but I'm sorry, it isn't. That's how things worked in 1939, when enemies had to mass trucks and tanks and artillery and troops to destroy your country. Back before the days of suitcase nukes, massive jetliners, milled anthrax and veiled war by stealth through the clever use of proxies and alliances with elusive international terrorist groups communicating instantly through the world wide web.

Welcome to the 21st century. Grow up, get a brain -- and start using it.

[johnb838]

He is employing selective historical perspective. There were, unfortunately, plenty of people opposed to our entering what came to be known as WWII in 1939, 1940, 1941, and even after Pearl Harbor. Then there was the lovely little tin-foil hat theory that Roosevelt allowed our ability to project power in the Pacific to be *wrecked*(!) with foreknowledge, so we would have to enter the war.