Articles I never got around to reading

The New Republic, "Noble Cause", by William J. Stuntz:



"Brief conflicts rarely produce lasting results, but long wars often do. Like the war in Iraq, the Civil War was supposed to be a brief battle over limited objectives, but escalated into a much larger--and more noble--fight. Lincoln didn't respond by bringing the troops home. And neither should we..."



Wowza! Iraq is the Civil War? Bush is Lincoln? Falluja is Gettysburg? I have now officially heard everything. Call it -- 11:40 a.m., Tuesday December 6, 2005, the neoconservatives have lost all connection to the earthly realm.