140-year insurgency

An anti-Bush, anti-Republican theme increasingly popular lately among the press and the left is the need for a withdrawal plan from Iraq; another popular left theme is that American voters with religious backgrounds are similar to the Iraqi insurgents, in that they are bigoted and otherwise intolerant.

Here's a much better comparison for them: With several years of error, we essentially settled the question of whether humans could be property in 1865. Yet, even today, we are still putting on trial people charged with refusing to accept that basic value of Western culture.

So what's our withdrawal plan from Iraq, where insurgents refuse to accept basic Wetern value, e.g., not lopping off heads with knives? I'd say, whatever it takes, even if it's 140 years.