[pollyannaish]

Can you tell I got interrupted several times when I was writing that? Sheesh.

I think the perspective is interesting...but like almost everything I read these days it sends up red flags.

You're right. Classic, but woven in with conventional wisdom and things you would expect to see in a thread such as this.

[pcottraux]

If you don't have a dog in this fight then you are just on the outside looking in. No politician has a dog in this fight. Honestly, of this is such a noble cause why don't the children of these politicians join the Army? Only we here and our people back home are sacrificing in this war. For anyone else, this war is just a story on the evening news.

This is the statement that bothers me the most. This is not only untrue, it's also classic anti-war propoganda. Michael Moore used this argument as a driving force for "Fahrenheit 9/11." I actually believe there are PLENTY of politicians with family members serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.