The only thing under my bed is the floor and half of a heating vent. Lots of dust. I don't have any pets. But I do sleep with a teddy bear. Okay, so war is hell, and this one more so than most, but it's not as if anybody has any better ideas.
War is never a default state.
War is, like it or not, a decision to murder people. I just don't think that has anything to do with not having dissent in the country. In many cases, I disagree with their premises, but unless all arguments are pesented as well as possible, an informed choice can hardly be made. Giving credit where it's due, the speech by the Leader of the Free World last Thursday night was pretty well written. Why, he occasionally went several paragraphs without my needing to yell at the television set.