I think you can't see the forest for the trees on this one. You're quibbling over how bad things have been in the past decade relative to other decades in American history while completely ignoring the astonishingly incorrect assumption that this has been a "peacetime decade." In 2001 several thousand Americans died in the most lethal terrorist attack on American soil in our history, thousands more American soldiers have died in the course of invading and occupying two foreign countries, and the war in one of those countries (Afghanistan) has spilled over into its neighbor (Pakistan). This decade has seen, by a wide margin, the most loss of life on the part of the American military since the Vietnam War ended. Please clarify how anyone with an IQ above the single digits and a 5-year old's knowledge of current events would call this a "peacetime decade."
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Pat McClellan
Dec 05, 2009
10:31 p.m.
I think you can't see the forest for the trees on this one. You're quibbling over how bad things have been in the past decade relative to other decades in American history while completely ignoring the astonishingly incorrect assumption that this has been a "peacetime decade." In 2001 several thousand Americans died in the most lethal terrorist attack on American soil in our history, thousands more American soldiers have died in the course of invading and occupying two foreign countries, and the war in one of those countries (Afghanistan) has spilled over into its neighbor (Pakistan). This decade has seen, by a wide margin, the most loss of life on the part of the American military since the Vietnam War ended. Please clarify how anyone with an IQ above the single digits and a 5-year old's knowledge of current events would call this a "peacetime decade."