Jay Nordlinger is right on the mark today:
“In my view, this election is not a contest to determine how we’ll fight the War on Terror; it’s a contest to determine whether we will fight it at all. And the decision made by the Americans will be fateful.”
I’m currently reading William Safire’s civil war novel Freedom. The parallels between then and now are quite striking. Lincoln was hated by almost everyone, constantly castigated in the press, portrayed as an ignorant, imbecilic baboon. The war was a continuing disaster, much, much worse than Iraq. He had generals plotting against him and each other. How could anyone conclude that this was NOT the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Would you have voted for Kerry, oops, I mean ,McClellan?