Originally Posted by MTI

Hard to say where you're going if you don't know where you started. And it helps to look back when being asked if one's situation is better now than four years ago.

Seems to me that back in September 2008, there were two wars, of which, one no longer involves a major US military force.

I'm certain that the GOP would prefer to forget the past, since there is a reliance on amnesia of how truly bad it was, when asking the four year question.