I think when I was 17, I got a brief kick about being in uniform and hoped the women around me shared the attraction. I doubt if I understood enough about politics to make a rational choice. But I wouldn’t worry too much about what people think 60 years from now about the choices made because in all probability, the US forces will still be there.

Nazi is as Nazi does.

I really don't think there will be any usual idiots sixty years from now. Not publically, anyway.

I fully expect that we will see an inverse French Underground effect--after it's all over, no one will admit to having been part of the anti-war movement.

Hey, we're saddled with Robert Byrd, aren't we?

Well, it's doubtful I'll be around to see it, but:

1. Jihadis win, no American soldier survives. A lot of my leftist boot licking friends don't make it either, but that's life. A lof of people didn't think much of Hitler in 1937 either...

2. We win and John Kerry is canonized by the left. It is retroactively decreed that Gore was president in 2000 and bravely won the war against Islamofascism singlehandedly. Kerry gets 3 more purple hearts and the medal of honor.

History is written by the winners.

"I really don't think there will be any usual idiots sixty years from now. Not publically, anyway.

"I fully expect that we will see an inverse French Underground effect--after it's all over, no one will admit to having been part of the anti-war movement."

Maguire's no fool. He knows what's the haps. He knows that once President John Sidney McCain III and Rex Sacrorum George W. Bush rub their magic dicks together, the unstoppable force of their combined Wills will rend the Levant asunder and overflow the Tigris and Euphrates, inaugurating A Very Manly Peace for Our Time.

And certainly, after it's all over, no one will admit to having been part of the anti-war movement.

Dear Mr. Green--

Mr. Grass's _The_Tin_Drum_ is an astonishing novel. I can't comment (nor should I) on the man's past, but his work stands on its own.

Mikey