Deserve Victory - Powerline posts

Deserve Victory - Powerline posts posts a challenge from Professor Charles Kesler

Perhaps, then, what the voters really wonder is whether this is war or only a new kind of protracted, indecisive police action, better fought now by airport screeners and international organizations than by the military. In that case, Americans may be tempted to elect a candidate who will declare victory?or stalemate?and bring our troops home. After decades of intoning the lessons of Vietnam, John Kerry's moment may have arrived, just when we need a war president who will insist on nothing short of victory.

Then, they (in this case, Big Trunk) asks:

Which brings us back to the question I raised this morning: Does the American public understand that we are still at war and in need of a war leader? Will they understand it come the election this November?

Two answers.

I think that in the Red states - where people are much more likely to have family members and friends in the military and the National Guard - the answer is "usually".

And, for the sake of this country, we have to hope so. If our memory is that short, I hate to say it, but perhaps this nation deserves what happens.

Posted by Mitch at March 10, 2004 06:36 AM