[Interesting Times]

Ping to a great article I missed on the first pass...

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Thanks for the ping.

[R. Scott]

What explains this paradox of public disappointment over things that turn out better than anticipated? Why are we like children who damn their parents for not providing yet another new toy when the present one is neither paid for nor yet out of the wrapper?

The radical liberals realize that our President and the various alphabet agencies are keeping us relatively safe. They can now kick back in that safety and play politics as usual.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[MEG33]

"Are we then basking in the unbelievable notion that the most diabolical government of the late 20th century is gone from Afghanistan, and in its place are schools, roads, and voting machines? Hardly, since the bar has been astronomically raised since Tora Bora. After all, the Afghan parliament is still squabbling and a long way from the city councils of Cambridge, La Jolla, or Nantucket — or maybe not.

The same paradox of success is true of Iraq. Before we went in, analysts and opponents forecasted burning oil wells, millions of refugees streaming into Jordan and the Gulf kingdoms, with thousands of Americans killed just taking Baghdad alone. Middle Eastern potentates warned us of chemical rockets that would shower our troops in Kuwait. On the eve of the war, had anyone predicted that Saddam would be toppled in three weeks, and two-and-a-half-years later, 11 million Iraqis would turn out to vote in their third election — at a cost of some 2100 war dead — he would have been dismissed as unhinged.

But that is exactly what has happened. And the reaction? Democratic firebrands are now talking of impeachment."

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Thank you for the ping. I am sorely afraid we have short memories here in this country..and the subversive dem voices are loud.

My eternal gratitude to those who serve our country and to those who have sacrificed all. They have accomplished so much.

[Just mythoughts]

Two front war, thanks for the ping.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the ping.

[RVN Airplane Driver]

Thanks for the ping...good read

[zot]

Thanks for the ping to a great article. I'm always glad to see something by Victor Davis Hanson. The American public seems to have a short memory and rising expectations, but I'm not sure that explains what is happening. The liberals are ideologically driven. They are the ones who have flushed facts down the memory hole and concocted these distortions.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!