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Maybe others will chime in, but my sense is that after Pearl Harbor, America was united behind the war effort. People were asked to sacrifice, men of all ages either signed up or were drafted, and the populace bought war bonds, conserved, and prayed for the safe return of their loved ones.
Compare that to today ... we have essentially an Army for hire, culled generally from the lowest ranks of society, our government has not asked for any sacrifices, our president and Congress seem concerned only with further and deeper tax cuts, and we have borrowed the ENTIRE cost of war from China.
In WWII, we had leadership, America was unified under that leadership and against a common enemy that was fought conventionally, on the battlefield by uniformed soldiers. Today we have a bunch of neocons that have essentially looted the treasury and made all their friends rich. And we have an unconventional conflict that requires not WWII-like battle plans, but a strategy exponentially more complex and subtle.
Our leaders did not prepare America for this (because they had no idea it was coming) and are ill-equipped to either design or implement the strategy necessary to win.
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We will stay the course. [8/30/06]
We will stay the course, we will complete the job in Iraq. [8/4/05]
We will stay the course *** We’re just going to stay the course. [12/15/03]
And my message today to those in Iraq is: We’ll stay the course. [4/13/04]
And that’s why we’re going to stay the course in Iraq. [4/16/04]
And so we’ve got tough action in Iraq. But we will stay the course. [4/5/04]
Well, hey, listen, we’ve never been “stay the course” [10/21/06]
--- George W. Bush, President of the United States of America
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