Watching us Self-Destruct ... How they musy be laughing ...

Playback Editor's Note:

Two-and-a-half years ago in May 2004, VDH warned that all the squabbling over Iraq could be put to rest should the United States take the initiative and defeat the insurrectionists, the premise being that most have no ideology, but most certainly do not want to be associated with a losing enterprise. Then he was worried that the withdrawal from the first attack of Fallujah and the escape of Sadr sent a terrible message that the United States was not winning, and that such magnanimity would be unfortunately considered weakness, leading only to more violence.

May 28, 2004
Our Reptilian Brains When “Just Win, Baby” sadly trumps everything else.

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online

After our victory in Afghanistan, the president's approval ratings soared, only to descend during the acrimony leading up to the March invasion of Iraq. But after the three-week war, somewhere between 60 and 70 percent of these same Americans purportedly returned to their earlier support of the president's initiatives.

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