The other day my wife of thirty years wondered aloud to me, "Why have we forgotten the war?"
"We haven't forgotten," I said. "Just the other day I saw a poll showing that, although the economy was the number 1 concern of 66% of americans, Concern over the war was second at 57%. Also, of those citing the economy as our #1 problem, a plurality stated the cost of the war was or is the primary cause of our current economic woe."
I don't think we have forgotten the war," I concluded. "I think we have just, to a large extent, given up. People had a lot of enthusiasm in 2006. They turned out in unprecedented numbers to put democrats in congress. The expectation was Congress would force a much needed withdrawal from Iraq. And. we all know how that played out. Not enough votes to override a threatened veto of an explicit timetable and, being unable or unwilling to use their constitutional power to deny funding, the democrats caved."
"We haven't forgotten," I said. "Just the other day I saw a poll showing that, although the economy was the number 1 concern of 66% of americans, Concern over the war was second at 57%. Also, of those citing the economy as our #1 problem, a plurality stated the cost of the war was or is the primary cause of our current economic woe."
I don't think we have forgotten the war," I concluded. "I think we have just, to a large extent, given up. People had a lot of enthusiasm in 2006. They turned out in unprecedented numbers to put democrats in congress. The expectation was Congress would force a much needed withdrawal from Iraq. And. we all know how that played out. Not enough votes to override a threatened veto of an explicit timetable and, being unable or unwilling to use their constitutional power to deny funding, the democrats caved."
