Good commentary in the National Review on changes in the US approach to war — especially telling in the apparent shift from the Powell Doctrine, even though Mr. Powell is now our Secretary of State (and perhaps why he is not our Secretary of Defense).
If America is less afraid of body bags now, it may be because we have already sustained six thousand of them (or we would have sustained six thousand of them, if many of the victims of Al Qaeda had not been burned and crushed into nothingness). We may be witnessing the end of Vietnam Syndrome, and Somalia Syndrome, and Gulf War Syndrome: a war without syndromes, waged in our own defense. A just war that is not holy war, but wholly war.
(Link via InstaPundit)
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