"This Is the Great War of Our Time"

So says George Bush. What sort of half-ass superpower are we if the Iraq War is the Great War of our Time?

Iraq (excluding Kurdistan) is smaller than Texas and one-third the population of Germany at the start of World War II. The Great United States Military is not fighting a well armed, well trained army but a ragtag collection of citizen militias. Their best weapons are homemade bombs while the US possesses conventional firepower that can, and has, reduced whole villages to rubble in a matter of minutes. Yet Iraq's citizen soldiers have fought the US to a stalemate.

"It's going to take forty years." The United States defeated Germany (plus Japan) in four years. Yet it will take two generations of fighting to quell Iraq.

If this pathetic, pissant war is what passes for greatness in the US nowadays then I am deeply, deeply ashamed of my country.