Re: Iraq is Vietnam on speed

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"New Reflection" <New_m...@newsguy.com> wrote in message
news:ctcma...@drn.newsguy.com...
> Another of the movie's soldiers, Robert Beatty, a 33-year-old Army lifer
> with three children back home, wonders whether Americans who "don't have
any
> direct family members in the military" regard the war as anything other
than
> "just entertainment"

BINGO

He hit that nail right on the head

Air strikes were fun to watch. House-to-house searches are boring

I'm glad my relatives broke the cannon-fodder habit a generation ago. Let
illegal aliens and green card foreign nationals EARN their citizenship.
Swear them in and if they survive X number of tours in Iraq or whatever
Islamic hellhole there is, they can consider themselves naturalized.

and guesses that they lost interest once "major combat"
> had given way to the far deadlier minor combat that followed. A Gallup
poll
> last year showed that most Americans might fall into that group, since
> two-thirds of those surveyed had no relative, friend or co-worker serving
in
> Iraq. Does that vast unconnected majority understand what's going on
there?