Waging The Invisible War

Beinart notes the news out of Afghanistan, and the lack of it:

One might think that this emotional isolationism would bring demandsfor military retrenchment. But ironically, the public's boredom anddisillusionment with international affairs actually makes it easier forthe Obama administration to sustain US deployments in Afghanistan andIraq. As Richard Nixon realized when he ended the draft in 1973, andthus sucked the oxygen out of the anti-Vietnam movement, it's easier toprosecute a war when...