MY EARLIER POST on Bush and the war has generated a lot of email, but here’s one that’s especially worthy of note:

Bush seems to be falling victum to his own success. We have been so successful in the war on terror that the country doesn’t see it as a war anymore.

Consider the following: If you were told on 9/21/2001 that by this date:

The Taliban have fallen

Iraq has fallen and has become a bastion of free press in the islamic world.

Libya had given up its WMD’s

North Korea is in multi-lateral talks about WMD’s

A majority of the leadership of Al Queda are dead or in custody

Pro-democracy rumblings are going on in Iran

Arafat is isolated

Many convictions of domestic sleepers or Al Queda members (Portland, NY etc…) and finally

NO SUCCESSFUL TERROR ATTACKS ON US SOIL

And all of this has cost less than 1000 dead American soldiers.

You’d be thinking “not bad.”

Bush said in his Sept. 20th speech that even if the country forgets he will not. He was right.

Good points. But what has he done for me lately?

UPDATE: Jim Bennett comments:

The anti-war types keep comparing Iraq to Vietnam. This has made me think…

If less than a year after US troops first landed in Vietnam, they had occupied all of North Vietnam, had Ho Chi Minh and General Giap dead or in custody, had an interim government in place, and were preparing for free elections (which of course in actuality Vietnam still doesn’t have forty years later), all for under five hundred combat casulaties, that wouldn’t have been such a bad outcome.

Of course people will say the situations aren’t comparable. That’s right — they aren’t comparable, so people should stop trying to make bogus analogies between the two situations.

Indeed.