It’s just a few precision strikes, not a war.
It’s a war, but it will be a very short war.
It might take a few months, but there won’t be boots on the ground.
We need boots on the ground, but only in a limited capacity.
We can’t win this without prolonged presence, and if you don’t support it despite having expressed all of your past concerns, you’re unpatriotic.
Some of the most hysterical doomsday predictions about this war might very well prove to be wrong. But a lot of influencers on this site are on the record offering many breezy assurances about how quick and painless this whole thing will be. I find those predictions at least as absurd and reckless as the extremes on the other side. And they’re looking more and more embarrassing by the day. Better to be overly wary of war than too cavalier about it. If our national experience over the past 30 years has taught us anything, it should be that.