Another blog on the suspense of waiting for this war to start. I posted the following (substantially) in the comments area:

There's a lot of this going around. Watching the U.N. is maddening. The only excuse is that it provides a possible distraction for Saddam. I don't know anybody who thought that the U.N. would do anything more about Iraq than it did to stop genocide in Cambodia or Rwanda.

Read the latest column by Hugh Hewitt on the Weekly Standard site. It recalls the speech made 25 years ago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsen at Harvard. There are two prophetic points that apply to our current situation.

I also reread a talk given by Gordon B. Hinckley in October 2001. He's the president of the LDS church, a prophet, and a very wise man.

This is a time to think about resolve and courage.

The Europeans seem to think like peasants. They see war as a matter for the elites with no benefit for the ordinary folk. The People of the U.S. have never seen themselves as peasants. It seems to be the elites who fear this war, probably because they have drunk too deeply from the fount of European post-modernism