There has been a lot of virtual high fiving and back slapping since 218 representatives voted for a new "emergency spending" bill with a deadline for a troop drawdown, re-deployment, withdrawal or whatever they are calling it today. In the longterm, it is, of course, a good thing, a necessary first step. Sadly, we all know that it is the best we can do, politically, at this juncture. Sadly, we all know as well that our best isn't good enough. It doesn't stop the pain, the suffering, the bloodshed, the hundreds of thousands of wasted lives and the hundreds of billions in wasted dollars. This genie can never be put back in the bottle.
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