[BubbaTheRocketScientist]

I don't see many useful points of comparison between WWII and the current war.

Inasmuch as we're not fighting a declared war against any particular state, you're right. On the other hand, the Germans and Japanese were driven by a cult-like fanaticism - much like our current enemy, and we were able to utterly defeat them in less time than it's taking us to pacify a relatively small area in Iraq. I don't understand why.

[churchillbuff]

On the question of whether we should have invaded Iraq, it's taken awhile for WF Buckley to get where John Paul II was from the very beginning. But JP II isn't called "the Great" for nothing.