How much chaos can Americans stand? (3 Asia Times articles)

[donsu]

http://www.atimes.com/

Chaos in Iraq, that is, civil war, serves the US's long-term strategic interests, some ATol writers have argued recently. The question is, how long can Americans - both the troops on the ground and the folks back home - stand it? At home, support for the occupation is at an all-time low. Now comes the news that more than half the US troops in Iraq want complete withdrawal within six months. And at a certain point, the sheer dollar cost of it all is going to become unacceptable.

the three articles:

THE MEN: US troops want out - Jim Lobe

THE MONEY: When the dollars stop making sense - Mark Engler

THE MAYHEM: Civil war all but declared - Michael A Weinstein


and there is a Cost of The War ticker, spinning away; the last 6 numbers spinning madly. here's where it was when I typed this: $244, 375, ---, --- the rest spinning by too fast to copy.

[rodeodance]

1. THE MEN: ----- THE MONEY: ---- THE MAYHEM:

nicely said.

[donsu]

3. I hadn't noticed that - thanks for pointing it out

nt

[liberal N proud]

2. And the American people continue to sleep

[Demeter]

4. I've Personally Had Enough Chaos as of November 2000

The last 6 years have been living in a hell I didn't make, choose, and evidently, cannot change or escape.

[FloridaPat]

5. US Long Term strategic interests? Since when is anything in the US

based on long term plans. We are known as the next quarter country for corporation plans. And we have to be the "next election" country for anything political. As for chaos - we have reality tv. You can now stay home and watch reality on tv. You don't have to actually go out and find it. And as long as the war stays overseas with volunteers, not to many will care. It was only the draft and the large amount of anti-war demonstrations that got us out of Vietnam after 20 some years.