Again, VDH is spot on. Americans are impatient, especially when it is apparent that mistakes have been made. Of course, the MSM will always beat the "quagmire" drum when our military is involved, unless it is one of those humanitarian interventions that Clinton was so fond of.
No, it's not unusual, but it's frustrating.
Why does the US have the best military and the worst diplomats?
If we'd tried, we couldn't've picked a more treasonous and incompetent pair - respectively - than Powell and Rice.
Until someone with real skill takes over at State, we're not going anywhere.
Saudi delendum est.
Once upon a time, cities had (at least) two newspapers. One paper thought that the Democrats were destroying the country. The other thought that the Republicans were destroying the country. They didn't hide their bias. And people read both papers, and made up their own mind.
Today, the media is overwhelmingly anti-Administration, yet they insist that they are completely objective, and the people are receiving the message that "everyone now accepts the fact" that Bush lied to get us into the war, the casualties are stronomical, we are losing, and Muslims hate us because of the damage Bush has done to our reputation.
There is precious little to counteract this message. I think this is new.
Differences between the wars...
A. Ten times as many Americans died in Korea in 30 months as died in Iraq in 30 months. (30,000 vs. less than 3,000)
B. Full wartime censorship was imposed on correspondents in Korea..
1.Correspondents were placed under jurisdiction of the army and were subject to courtmartial.
2. Correspondents could not criticize the Allied conduct of the War and could not send demoralizing dispatches
3.Correspondents could not quote officers or report casualties without authorization.
4.More regulations listed at the link above.
C. Thousands of young Americans were drafted to serve in Korea.
Let's hope the outcome in Iraq is the same as that in South Korea...
millions of people, freed from the control of a deadly dictator (Saddam in Iraq; Kim il-Sung in Korea)