[COEXERJ145]

Are you just a natural pessimist or do you have to work at it?

[rwfromkansas]

sample percentage:

"50% Democrat
40% Republican"

[warchild9]

I'm a realist. Television rules the world, and television is telling the boobs that the war is already lost.

I realize that it's being slowly won in Iraq proper, but it's the "slowly" that's important. Americans are notorious for being impatient, and unless certain steps are taken, the war will be lost here at home. It's gone on too long. Unfortunately, those "steps" require amplification of the military effort, which will NEVER go over well here at home, not with the media concentrating on losses and not gains.

History teaches that all war is psychology, bending the will of your enemy to match your own. The killing of terrorists is secondary. Body counts don't count. Television coverage does. That's the lesson of Viet Nam. (Oops! I used the VN term!)