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I do worry about real things.

I have recollections of W.W.II and the "greatest generation." I remember them as committed to winning. No politician put party or career ahead of victory. No media folks believed that they should be "neutral." No one hesitated to name the enemy and call him names. No one worried about offending anybody by killing the enemy by the thousands, millions if necessary.

The references to the movies you name are insulting but that's your way. My movie reference was a metaphor. I should try to keep it simpler, I suppose.

The "best and brightest" was generally how the media referred to the men around JFK. They carried over to LBJ. The youth of the day were celebrated as the smartest ever. That's fact. The media always noted that when featuring the few of them opposed to the war. I clearly remember those and most things. I was well into my twenties and a news junkie but I did not depend upon the TV network "news."

The events I described from that era are real. I sincerely see similar things today. This war is for all the marbles and it's not 6,000 milies away.

Would you suggest that General Franks and General Myers are getting their views from movies? (Just in case, NO I am not comparing myself to the two generals or a movie about two generals.)

You remember WWII as a child, forgetting, or never knowing about the N.Y.Times' deification and whitewash of " "Uncle Joe ". I was too little , back then, to remember anything much about it; however, I know what it was like from a wee child's perspective, family stories, and extensive reading. And NO, there were Bundists, isolationists, Commies, and yes, the sheeple of that day, who were against us being in WW II...even AFTER Pearl Harbor!

I used the " best and the brightest " line, because it was sheer propaganda then, as it is now. It is as accurate, as your supposed " metaphor ". I was almost an adult/an adult during the JFK/LBJ times and I have a better grasp and memory of all that, than obviously you do.

I've been a political/news junkie, since I was a toddler. My mother did that to me, and it stuck. Not only were my immediate family, but my extended family and almost all of their friends the same, but I imagined, growing up, that EVERYONE else was just like us too. How wrong I was. LOL

War, the kind fought by suicide bombers, is nothing new to America.

Anarchists/Socialists/Marxists/Communists have been pulling this stuff, here, RIGHT HERE, ON OUR SOIL, for the past 100+ years, with interludes of quiescence. Lincoln, FDR, and Wilson, stamped all over the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, during wartimes past.Lefty " intellectuals ", Hollywood " stars ", Broadway performers and writers went to bat for Sacco and Vanzetti ( sp ? ), long before you and I were even a gleam in our respective fathers' eyes, let alone either one of us being alive. The only thing to have changed is technology.

Generals shouldn't be president/make major policy; they aren't equipped to do so. Wes Clark is an example of this, as were Grant,and even Ike. Washington was a true Renaissance man, so let's leave him out of that mix. :-)