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Get ready to embrace your former optimism. Never mind Carl's dark grumbling. We Americans are noted for our eternal optimism. I am sure you will want to revise your thinking on these matters as future public opinion polls will no doubt prove:
1) if the war is perceived as a failure, it will turn out that absolutely nobody supported the war,
2) if the war is perceived as a success, it will turn out that absolutely everybody supported the war.
As you can see, Americans are always on the right side of any issue, and our opinions are thereby vindicated as a true indicator of the greatness and goodness of our way of life.
Chuck Grimes