What's important, the result or how long it takes?

In an attempt to have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, or as the PC crowd is fond of saying a Happy Holiday, as if they can’t recall which holiday it is, I’ve sworn off most TV & radio talk until after the New Year. Rush is still a must. But, that’s only because ever since I heard his, “I’ll take the job” parody* in 1980 something, I’ve always found him to be genuinely funny. Cutting out the other wannabes works. It’s like cutting out the Sunday morning talkers. Life’s just better.

But like most addicts, I had a brief relapse last night. During a break in Monday night football, I flipped to O’Reilly. As justification for getting out of Iraq, Bill was whining about it taking less time to defeat Japan than the insurgents in Iraq. Well a couple of points occurred to me almost immediately. First, we’re still in, or as the left would say “occupying”, Japan and Germany 60+ years after the war.

Next, what if:
1. The Normandy invasion had failed, would mom & dad have quit? Hell no! They would have found another way to get Hitler.
2. The A Bomb wasn’t available, would mom & dad have sued for peace with Tojo? Hell no! They would have slugged it out with Japan and achieved the same unconditional surrender.

Last is Lex’s rule of halves (quickly becoming the rule of 1/3rd on its way to 1/4th). Half of America does not think we are at war. Half of those that believe we are at war, have no idea what is required to win the war. Half those that have an idea of how to win the war, have no idea what’s at stake. If we knew we were at war with Pan-Islamo-terror-fascists, and we knew that the war would last a generation or more, and we knew that our very survival as a nation hang in the balance, would anyone be talking about a Kissinger model of “Peace with honor for a respectable interval” before ceding Iraq to the ITF? Would Libs, weak Reps and the MSM be rooting for our defeat in Iraq as way of getting back at George Bush?

* Rush Limbaugh had a four word cure for unemployment during Bush 41’s presidency in the late 80s, “I’ll take the job.” Rush would read a MSM report about the poor jobless souls in some community, the kind of report that only surfaces during Republican presidencies, then he would read page after page of “Help Wanted” ads from that community’s local paper. All the while, a catchy jingle played in the background with the hook line, “I’ll take the job”. It was quite funny.