I know. I'm just having one of those days when I wish we could be honest.
Politics and honesty?
Nah, a profession of creative wording.
I know just what you mean.
Remember the object is not to go to war with as many countries as we can, but to change for the better a very backward part of the world. And this is going to take a long time. This is what the President means when he says this is going to be a long war. Will it work? I don't know as I've misplaced my crystal ball, but the alternative is not something that is in our history. 300 years from now I don't want some historian writing 'and then America went mad and killed millions of Muslims'.