Personally, I think that the fastest way to end this war would be to try to mobilize the country for war the way we did in WW II. As soon as John Q. Average started to feel the pinch he would be screaming for the war to be over and the poll driven politicians would be falling all over themselves to make it happen. As for garnering the political will out of Washington, forget it. I can't even go to political web sites anymore because rational discourse seems to dead now. Everything is partisan bickering (on both sides) now. Compromise is now considered weakness. How can you form a consensus out of that? Without something approaching a consensus how can you garner the political will necessary?

SFC W