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By ANNIE HAMBLETON
RcccptiooM at the HeriU<e Foundation
For better or worse, Americans expect quick and decisive victory in war, whether it’s a shoot-em-up type of conflict like the Gulf War, or a less visible, but equally deadly, conflict like the drug war. If victory is slow to come, they want to know why.
It wasn’t Gene McCarthy and the student protesters that turned the American public against the Vietnam War. It was the fact that after nearly 10 year of U.S. Military involvement nobody could confidently say “victory is now in sight. ”
Too bad the same standards aren’t applied to domestic issues.
For 30 years now, America has been waging a War on Poverty. This winless war already has cost taxpayer more than $5 trillion, I read the other day: more than the entire cost of fighting Germany and Japan in the Second World War. Neverthe
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