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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (6007)8/26/2003 3:13:01 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (2) of 793623
 
I think the American people can take it for a while - if they know why it's necessary.

I disagree, Nadine. For two reasons. First the speed of communications today means that five years benchmark for Vietnam is dramatically shorter. Who knows how much because other variables count. But so far as information flow is concerned, it will matter. Those daily deaths will add up if they are not matched by some clear evidence of progress. Not the present spin we see.

Second reason is that there is little sense of this as a "necessary" war and if the present circumstances persist, the slight degree to which that exists will slide away. It may be replaced by the notion of a "necessary occupation" less Iraq become, as a failed state, a setting for Al Q types. But if that's paralleled with a mounting US death toll, that too will erode.

If the Bushies cannot offer some clear evidence of demonstrable successes, this becomes the proverbial tarbaby.
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