All we're saying is, give war a chance

Yeah Rob, it’s fucked up. But I don’t think the war so much as divided the country as it simply exposed the divisions that we’ve all been papering over since the 1960s. One thing’s for sure though, it has definitely energized the far left. They’re out in full-throated roar, especially with the release of that fat sack of shit Michael Moore’s new movie.

This war is depressing, not the least because we seem so intent on beating ourselves. There is a very schitzophrenic nature to how we're conducting it, a very surreal disconnect between our military prosecution of the war, which has been flawless, and the political. As a bona fide history nut, I can tell you the idea that POW abuse would have caused the even slightest ripple during WWII is unthinkable.

Unlike Vietnam, we can't just walk away from this fight, either, not without incurring some very bad consequences. When we decided to throw in the towel in Vietnam, the Viet Cong couldn't follow us back home. This enemy can - and will.

The war will end one of two ways. Either the left, drunk on their 60s nostalgia, will prevail in the public debate and we'll quit the battlefield, leaving the jihadis free to pull the entire Middle East back to the 8th century, or we'll kill enough of them that their movement will dry up and die. We can't be defeated militarily, but we can be beaten morally. When I hear about how so many people are swallowing Michael Moore's kool-aid, it makes me think that that is a very real possibility.