That's who we are -- socially humane, expendable and increasingly impotent. It's not who our fathers and grandfathers were. The men who decimated German and Japanese cities as part of the effort to win World War II as quickly as possible would have been perplexed by descendants who now send American troops house to booby-trapped house and expect to achieve anything but more war, "limited" though it may be.
Talk about waste.
You rose to go. I asked whether anything I said had made sense. Your conclusion: "I don't think we're prepared to take the kind of civilian casualties that you describe."
And you were gone.
Here's what I wanted to say next: If that's the case, senator -- and I'm afraid it is -- we'd better get out of the business of trying to project power. We have forgotten how.