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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
heek...I can't figure out(not that I can figure out any of skys postings)if sky was saying 'goodby' for the day or if he was saying 'goodby' forever.
I can almost see him rising to the Sky in an Iridescent Blue Flame and wearing a Tin Foil War Bonnet. Off for a visit with the God of Abraham, no doubt.