Liberal Talk Radio

Got this from my Dad today, via a txt message:

lest we forget…

Four years later, we should ask: are we closer to the end or the beginning of this war? I’m going to read this tonight before I go to bed, and I hope it sheds some light. Looks like a downer of an article, and I’m not so down on our chances against this Osama guy. I still think we can beat it all back. But it’s going to mean fighting on our terms, not his. Getting drawn in to a long-term military presence in the Middle East has no doubt made us safer at home in the short term, but it’s shifted the problem more than solved it.

LEO
It’s that I don’t know what winning looks like. What does it look like. Is it… I mean, is it
honestly the U.S. flag flying over Mecca? Is that what’s going to straighten this out? And if
that’s the case, why are we postponing that? What are we hoping is going happens in the meantime?

SAM
That somebody will think of something before we have to do the unthinkable.

LEO
You’re one of the big minds of your generation. Have you thought of anything yet?

SAM
No.

LEO
Neither have I. Neither has the Preisdent of the United States– also a pretty good mind.

– “The Red Mass” The West Wing, Season 4