No hope for victory?

Joe Galloway says that we won't win this war because civilians don't have to sacrifice as they did in WWII. He may be right, but not for that reason. The real problem is that too many people today grew up in the Sixties and have no memory of what it was like in war time. The war in Vietnam was mishandled, both by the government and by the press, and it became easy to argue that it was an immoral war. After all, whom were we liberating? We were propping up a corrupt government and fighting a holding action.

Our media and one of our major political parties are still operating on the mythic assumption that all war is wrong, and doing everything they can to make sure this will prove a debacle for Republicans. If they succeed, it will be because we at home have become too self-involved and concerned about our personal wants to remember what it cost to get us to this level of freedom and prosperity. I've heard all my life that citizenship has obligations. I guess there aren't that many here who were taught that way or, if they were, still believe it.