Reply #10: If Congress enacted a law guaranteeing a new war every four years ...

[Boojatta]

then the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq might seem to be mere details in a steady and routine project of military invasions.

If too much attention is being paid to bin Laden, then perhaps the blame rightfully rests with Congress for its timid refusal to guarantee that the US military will neither cut and run, nor cease and desist, but will create a forever expanding bubble of military success.

This era could be, for military achievement, what 1928 was for economic achievement: a permanently high plateau, to be followed by high peaks rising above the plateau.