I wonder how Cindy Sheehan and the war protesters who gathered in Washington recently would have reacted more than half a century ago when things were not going well for us during the first few years of World War II. We were losing many young Americans every week, young people who also were fighting in far-off lands, and we were scoring few victories. In those days we were united as a country and stood behind our leaders, whose job it was to make the tough decisions and to do what they believed was the right thing for America. In those days people like Sheehan, and there were some, would have been scorned as traitors by both the public and the press for suggesting that we retreat from our commitments.
If we had cut and run in World War II like the anti-war movement would like us to do today in the war on terror, we would be living in a very different world where the freedom and prosperity we have enjoyed for the last 50 years would not have been possible.
