[sarasota]

Of Iraq he says: "We think we can just call off the game early, and go back home and watch TV." We have, and this election proves it, lost our nerve.

[Alberta's Child]

I think he's dead wrong on this. Our problem in Iraq isn't that we've "lost our nerve" . . . it's that we haven't had much nerve to begin with -- or that we haven't put the nerve we do have to good use.

The GOP lost last week not just because of anti-war sentiment from the left, but because of anti-war sentiment from the right. The left never wanted to be there in the first place, while the right has no patience for a half-@ssed military campaign in times like this.

[dforest]

The voters and the media have proved that Americans do not have staying power. Our enemy now has it confirmed.