How can you speak with such sublime optimism when th US can't even win it's own wars at home? The war on drugs, failed.The war on obesity, the war on illiterarcy, the war on crime. Failure's all. And you'd pump us up about the war in Iraq? Go to the neighborhoods and ask how we're doing? Ask if all those tax dollars fighting the war on poverty, or drugs, or crime has been resolved. If we can't win wars within our borders, how can you expect to excite the people on wars we are waging in the world?

Very suscinct analysis Austin. Maybe some dunderhead advising the McCain campaign will read it & figure a way to work considerations like it into winning an election instead of giving it away.
To liz:
The "wars" you mention are all big-government, high cost liberal social-engineering programs. They're failure is example of the fallacy that government can cure our woes, and an argument for the conservative preference for small government. Maybe if the very corrupt Democrat regimes controlling Detroit and CHicago were removed, those cities might become as safe as Iraq. It took a Republican mayor to substantially reduce crime in NYC. The war in Iraq is not a failure, and its success will have far-reaching implications.