But I agree on war fatigue and Iraq.
Iraq was a mistake. It was not only the wrong target but doing so screwed up the power balance in the region and was thus made even worse by Barry's actions there and in Syria thus helping create what we now know as Isis. We should have been in Afghanistan and other remote locations pin pointing and blowing the fuck out of the people who took down those towers. We should have been angry. Just not at Iraq.
Why fatigue?
Because all the "measured and reasonable response" people have -- since Vietnam -- prevented the American Military from doing what we have the capability to do.
We send troops in to actually wage WAR and not dick around? There's no fatigue because it's over so quickly nobody has time to get tired. War is awful, cruel, heartless and painful. But since Vietnam and the daily body counts the administration has been loathe to take the short term pain and avoid the longer-term lack of resolution.
Today would we attack the beaches at Normandy? Would we drop the bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima? Would we put the Japanese in camps to make sure the country was safe after Pearl Harbor? Would we? Nope. Obama would send a peace turkey to Japan and apologize for our aircraft carriers causing the deaths of the Kamikaze "fringe elements" Then we'd let them build a Shinto temple next to the USS Arizona.
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