Roosevelt didn't have to fight the MSM, academia and the Republicans during WWII. Those who opposed the war effort disappeared and spent the remainder of the war in mental insituttions.
Perhaps that's why, in 1948, I was born in a place called a "Hostpital & Sanitarium", but never told exactly which wing my mother was in...
You're right, it's not a truly fair comparison...and I'm plenty willing to give Gen. Petraeus & the Administration the benefit of the doubt...for awhile. But I know that corporations from Haliburton to Boeing to Martin-Marietta, all the way to those who make the commodes & supply the beef & K-rations, are rooting for another 100 years of extraordinary earnings from sales to DoD.
And JUDGMENT in how those tax dollars are deployed to keep us safe, while maximizing military effectiveness (& minimizing American causlties) will be very important to me in the upcoming election (which I am hoping will feature no one named Clinton). Obama addresses this issue & I'm looking forward to hearing John McCain's position, too...