That's the lesson learned from Poppy41. He won the Gulf War too quickly and too easily. It scared off the Democrat front-runners in the '92 election leaving lesser men like Tsongas and you-know-who. The problem was that the Gulf War became a forgotten war by the time Election Day rolled around. If W spanks the Taliban, takes his win and goes home, nobody outside New York is going to remember in 2004. That's one reason why this war must be taken beyond the Afghan borders. Who'll be next? Someone between Iraq and a hard place?