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  • Opinion Constant commentary breeds impatience

    Cpt. Craig F. Eisenbeis, U.S. Coast Guard (Ret.)|Updated Apr 15, 2003

    Less than two weeks into the Iraq campaign, war commentators proclaimed that the war was stalled and not going according to plan. Theater Commander Gen. Tommy Franks responded, "We have the power to be patient." By the time the ink dried on the pundits' impatient manifestos, U.S. tanks were rolling into Baghdad. Perhaps nothing has distinguished the Iraq war from previous conflicts more than the proliferation of people willing to talk about it. Probably the most interesting of these war commentaries have come from "embedded"... Full story