Polls are indicating that many Americans are yearning for another retreat into isolationism.
The relentlessly grim news from Iraq, the antagonism abroad toward U.S. foreign policy, the stirrings of antipathy against free trade and the pull of delayed solutions to domestic problems are combining to make Americans feel fed up with being "over there."
Perhaps this is true. Maybe we are getting too tired to fight. Perhaps not. But it doesn't matter what we think.
The war ultimately isn't up to us, since our enemies don't seem to be tired of trying to kill us yet. We won't be coming home until it's over, over there.
I wish this wasn't so.
