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Originally Posted by soypwrd
Any comparison with any part of WWII is faulty. The powerful nations of Germany and Japan held a direct threat to the US, leaving us no choice but to engage them and fight until death. This is war of choice against a small country that had no real immediate threat to our survival... completely different situation. Don't confuse the two.
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You are of course, pretty much exactly right.
My analogy was suitable only for the time-to-victory. In the WOT we are barely started and it will be as Don Rumsfeld said on several under-reported occaissions, "A long, hard slog."
"This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Speech by Winston Churchill given at the Lord Mayor's Luncheon, Mansion House, London, November 10, 1942.