Pierre L wrote:

Wake up America indeed!

Anybody can make war. The hard part is achieving political ends without
having to use war as the last resort. As an ex-military person, I can
understand the need for military action in some cases, but Bush's war is one
of naivety, agreed to by a simpleton president who is probably being
manipulated by a small core of right-wing extremists who have their own
agendas (perhaps involving the great profiteering involved in any war). Such
a man in charge of a superpower military arsenal is a dangerous thing for
both America and the rest of the world.

You know, nobody could have possibly even imagined the almost sudden
collapse of the Soviet Union.

Wrong. President Ronald Reagan envisioned it.