War or not

I have to feel a little sorry for President Obama as the other congressmen are starting to treat him as they did President Bush. As he prepares to go into Syria they want to know how many troops are you going to use and where will they go and how long will they be there and how many will be killed and injured and how much will it cost and how will you pay for it? This is the new way in which we fight what we call pretend wars. Can you imagine asking General Eisenhower these questions as we entered WW 2? Ah, but that was in the old days when war was war and it was fought by generals and the goal was to win. Today we have politics running the wars and Presidents determining strategy and we can’t decide if we want to pay the cost to win. Sounds like we are in for another long drawn out affair where no one really wins until we just get tired of it all and declare victory and come home.