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Originally Posted by Hog1

Maybe America is fat, spoiled, and "I" oriented. We would like our wars to get wrapped up in a long holiday weekend. We expect results as in "Desert Storm One", with very few allied casualities, and tremendous losses from the opposition.
We are unaccustomed to shedding the blood, war demands.
It has been many years since this country has experienced the kind of loss from the Great War, Guadalcanal, D-Day, Chosen Reservoir, or even Vietnam. While this by no means compares to those, we don't like it. It doesn't run on a schedule. It's not over until it's over.
I believe 9-11 brought us to a new reality. We will fight the terrorist factions, either on their home ground or our own! Maybe both................maybe forever.

I'm not sure about forever but I think we will be fighting terrorism for the rest of my life span. Its a shame that is what things have come to but maybe I could be wrong and I'd be more than happy to say I was wrong about this.