The Media, Diet Pills, and Iraq

War is hard. Nevertheless, the media think you solve a difficult problem merely by unleashing exceptionally bright people. They cannot embrace the fact that "difficult", in war, means accepting a string of failures that culminate in victory.

So, the first sign of turbulance and the media cries foul. Continued turbulance produces proclamations of failure. In our weird age of self-indulgence, easy successes are praised while hard-fought victories spawn committees.

Cesarean sections and diet pills, hard work be damned! Thus are the preferences of our effeminate elite. It was not always so.