{"id":984,"date":"2001-10-28T13:03:09","date_gmt":"2001-10-28T18:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=984"},"modified":"2001-10-28T13:03:09","modified_gmt":"2001-10-28T18:03:09","slug":"patience_is_a_v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/28\/patience_is_a_v.html","title":{"rendered":"Patience is a virtue, and other cliches"},"content":{"rendered":"

InstaPundit notes<\/a> that some folks are complaining because, gads, we’ve been bombing for weeks <\/i>and we haven’t won <\/i>yet. Gads!<\/p>\n

I was really hoping the Instant Gratification streak of the US would be on hold for a bit longer. It makes you wonder how WWII would be different if fought today.<\/p>\n

Geoff also makes the interesting obervation that “[T]his war is the inverse of most Afghan conflicts: to win, they have to govern Afghanistan. We just have to stop them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

InstaPundit notes that some folks are complaining because, gads, we’ve been bombing for weeks and we haven’t won yet. Gads! 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