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The sad thing is I believe most Americans would be saying the same thing as Friedman had the war gone well. The American people have not miraculously seen the "evil of their ways" as it were. Just as suddenly as all Americans became eco-conscious as the price of gasoline went up, all have become moral bastions now that the war has gone sour.
However they are no more invested in eco-consciousness than the idea that unilateral use of force is wrong. In the end most believed that this war was ok, and would still believe so if it wasn't so badly executed. We shall see the same with the environment - as gas drops, so shall SUVs become popular again, damn the environment.
That in the end is what is most disturbing about this war - we got to see the real soul of the nation. They were happy to invade a country for immoral pretenses, we still don't give a damn about habeas corpus, and we still are happy to ignore the torture that went on. The election of Obama ultimately changes nothing of this - there has been no national reconciliation to the evils of the last 8 years.
