Ok. So Iraq's taking longer. And? Is there a point in there somewhere?
One difference between 2003 Iraq and the 1945 Japan we had found ourselves with, was that two of Japan's cities had been nuked, I believe. So, cutting to the chase, do I take you, in these few comments, to be essentially asking why we don't just nuke some Iraqi cities? Which ones?
[it's the inexplicable and needless impatience] Needless perhaps, but not at all inexplicable. The idea of a "return to normalcy" is a part of our national character.
But that's just it: who of us, and in particular who of the whiners, every really left normalcy? There are the military people doing the actual work, of course (but most of them wish to persist). But for the rest of us? I dare say that for 99% of the people who whine and gripe, the only difference between normalcy and now is that now, they repeatedly get on the internet and whine about how Iraq's not going fast enough and how tired they are of it and how they want to get back to normalcy.
That's why I find it inexplicable. Most of the impatient people I'm referring to may as well be complaining about being tired of a plotline on "Desperate Housewives", for all any of this has actually affected their lives.