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Originally posted by lendaddy
Being as objective as possible, the only similarity is that the public has lost it's will again.
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Support was never there in the first place. Anytime you have less than 90% of the population behind a government activity, you will have problems, increasing in scope and frequency, making continuing that activity more and more difficult, no matter what it is.
If anything, a war is harder and requires an even higher percentage of support.
In this particular event, the support was never more than 70-71% in the most optimistic polls, with it being well known that there was at least 30% firmly opposed and the middle 30% soft. That soft 30% is shifting towards opposition very rapidly, making over 56% of the population now opposed with rising numbers.
War was a bad idea from day one.