Happy Birthday War
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Children that were about to finish 8th grade were going to enjoy one last summer before they had to throw off childish things and enter the oh so grown up world of “High School”. Those children are now done with that experience and dying in the blast furnace heat of Iraq.
Those that will be entering Junior High have no true, realistic memory of a nation not at war.
I find it hard to imagine that people that think that “The Tonight Show” was always hosted by Jay Leno are now wearing body amour and sitting in front of 50 caliber machine guns.
The war goes on. Twelve to eighteen months at a time it continues. Twelve to eighteen months to set up a working government. Twelve to eighteen months to end the insurgency. Twelve to eighteen months to bring down the violence. Twelve to eighteen months to “let the surge work”.
General David Petraeus will be speaking before congress soon. He is likely to say that he will need time to do an analysis of the possibility of drawing down the troop size to pre-surge levels.
How long will it take?
Oh,
probably twelve to eighteen months is my guess.
So happy birthday war. I’ll be here with another candle next year. an the next, and the next, and twelve to eighteen months after that.

Good stuff, Ben. Thanks for noting the occasion.
I also had some thoughts on 5 years of occupation:
http://www.allthepages.org/archives/2008/03/a_sad_day_5_years_on.html
March 19th, 2008 at 7:30 amThanks Mike,
March 19th, 2008 at 2:55 pmThe photo on your post speaks more than I could have ever said.