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WASHINGTON -- As the Afghanistan War intensifies -- Marja, soon Kandahar, and the steady arrival of 30,000 new American troops -- it has come to be seen as Obama's war.
Not so. It's become America's war. When the former opposition party -- habitually anti-war for the last four decades -- adopts, reaffirms and escalates a war begun by the habitually hawkish other party, partisanship falls away, and the war becomes nationalized.
And legitimized. Do you think if John McCain, let alone George W. Bush, were president, we would not see growing demonstrations protesting our continued presence in Iraq...
In Praise of the Rotation of Power
Nothing short of revolutionary action will work the will of the People, which, in case you've forgotten, is the source from which our government dervives its authority.
Please read my blog on this subject at http://ajmacdonaldjr.blogtownhall.com/