Nothing has changed

As Obama becomes Bush III, we hear more "stay the course" rhetoric for fighting a useless war.
More Americans die in a country that not even Alexander the Great could subjugate.
The British tried.
The Russians tried.
It seems everyone has tried.
Only the Taliban has succeeded. And that was even a nominal success.

30,000 more troops sent to control an uncontrollable situation, started in the heat of the moment at everyone's behest. But rather than filling people with dread, they heard the words Afghanistan, Taliban, Al Qaeda, and War, and immediately thought that the American war machine could do anything it wanted to.
8 years later we slog on.
It didn't even take us this long to subjugate Germany. Twice.

And then there was this:

"For our values are not simply words written into parchment - they are a creed that calls us together, and that has carried us through the darkest of storms as one nation, one people."


The speech writer should be fired for that.  All that was missing was "one leader." I shudder to think what would have happened there...