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"America loses wars on the home front. You canít beat them with the tanks and the planes and the battleships, but you can beat them on the TV networks and in Congress, and in demoralizing the home front." This is why I have been agitating for an Office of War Information since 11 September 2001: an enemy cannot be allowed to propagandize one's own home front during wartime. The fact that the administration does not recognize this fact is one of the main reasons I believe that this war is not really a war at all — just another in a long series of "police actions" that have ended badly.

We are in deep trouble.

I have tried so hard not to be depressed by the movement of public opinion in this country since we invaded Iraq, but it's time to face facts: Americans want us out of Iraq and damn the consequences.

I find it odd that around here we are constantly (and properly) complaining about liberal school policies, liberal media, and the coarsening of our culture, but when someone states the obvious, such as the fact that we are winning the war on the ground but are dying of self-inflicted wounds on the home front, people freak out.

It's time we face facts. The Democrats are a loathsome bunch and the American people don't seem to LIKE them, but the attitude of the huge majority of Americans, educated in liberal schools and "informed" by liberal media and cajolled by liberal opinionmakers, is that they don't care about right, wrong, or who dies, just get us OUT of Iraq, and then we can just hunker down in our homes in front of or TV sets and then the world will leave us alone.

And the Dems are perfectly poised to take the White House in 2008, which will only speed up our descent into ignorant shirking from fierce engagment with the world, to be replaced by a sheepish, appeasing America that doesn't care about our principles as codified in the Constitution, as long as we can pretend the adherents of the "religion of peace" LIKE us.

[”We are in deep trouble.”]

Fear not. Things will work itself out over time (micro- economics).

Joseph Goebbels attempted the same technique...In our current state of affairs, it just takes more time, that’s all.

We are losing this and the price for failure will be high indeed. I guess the dems and others who don’t understand the nature of the enemy will have to learn it the hard way. Despite many who think this is and insist on claiming this is Vietnam all over again will find out how different this war is when the jihadists bring it to our schools, malls, and stadiums. But even then I think they’ll just turn around and say it’s Bush’s fault as it’s the only mantra they understand. Their pollyanna psyche can’t handle the idea of real evil so they’d rather stick their heads in the sand. Well I say to hell with them. As for me and mine we’ll be preparing for what will be a long bloody conflict on American soil.

an enemy cannot be allowed to propagandize one's own home front during wartime

The Korean War was similar to the Iraq War because it was fought

to free millions of people from an oppressive dictator and
to counteract an "ism" that was threatening the world.

Full wartime censorship was imposed during Truman's Democratic administration, six months into the Korean War.

While Democrat Harry Truman was president,
Correspondents

couldn't criticize the war effort
couldn't send demoralizing dispatches.
couldn't mention casualties without authorization
couldn't quote officers without authorization.
were placed under the jurisdiction of the army
were subject to court martial.

(many more restrictions are listed at the link above)

BTW, 30,000 Americans died in Korea in the 30 months that Truman was still president.

Talk about your major blunders, if the Truman administration hadn't first removed our troops from South Korea, we would not have needed to go back to free the South Koreans from the invading troops of Kim il-Sung.