>Looking at it in a purely and naively empiricist way, one could say that
>nothing soothes the savage beast at the heart of the u.s. working class
>than a democrat in the white house and republican control of Congress,
>combined with a good clean genocidal zero-casualty war.
Actually I think 4% unemployment, 5 years of real wage growth, and (until recently) 25% stock market returns do more to explain it than these reasons. I'll bet most Americans haven't thought about Kosovo in months.
Doug