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however isn't the one big difference 9/11? Vietnam, Lebanon, and Somalia never harbored assassins who unprovoked murdered 3000 American civilians on US soil. It doesn't take much imagination to figure out what AQ would do once again given time and safe harbor in Afghanistan. I think the American people know this.
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Short answer is NO. That is not a big difference. Few people can remember things more than a few hours ago. You will remember that the Afgan war was put on the back burner in favor of searching of WMDs in Iraq. Neither the politicians of either party nor the general public has any urgency on why we are there and what we need to accomplish. Right now its just a war in a far away place if you have no one involved and that is the issue with the all volunteer army. So if there is a large scale battle fought what does it mean to the general public except we can leave sooner.
Here are two articles in the WAPO from yesterday and today.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?hpid=topnews
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...d=opinionsbox1
If you want to froth and foam at the mouth about the press then you miss the point that this guy Robinson is like most of the public.
So that's a lot for me to type about something not related to hunting but that's my view of the situation.