"War is easy, but peace is hard. America's Leviathan force handles any conventional threat out there, so our enemies refuse to fight straight up. Instead, they sit out the war, waiting to bleed us -- asymmetrically -- in the peace. If we can't master postwar environments, we'll achieve no lasting victories in this long war against radical extremism...
Get the postwar right, and nobody cares about prewar intelligence. Far fewer American casualties plus reasonably satisfied Iraqis equals a non-debate over Saddam's alleged nuclear program. (TW- in other words nobody would have cared the war was based on false pretenses if Bush had executed it better, think about that one...)
Al Qaeda always has a cause celebre and always screws it up. Despite our constant swallowing of its propaganda, al Qaeda blew it big time in Iraq by over-reaching on fundamentalism and violence -- just like everywhere else it has set up shop...
The American public is not casualty-averse so much as lie-averse. If Bush-Cheney had been honest with the American people from the start about what it would take to complete the effort in Iraq, they would've found real support. Americans will sacrifice for the collective good of others. It is a consistent quality that our politicians persistently mistrust -- to everybody's detriment."
http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/36463
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