Comments on: Partisanship and the Speed of Withdrawal http://blog.psaonline.org/2008/01/31/partisanship-and-the-speed-of-withdrawal/ Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:55:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Kirsten Derynioski http://blog.psaonline.org/2008/01/31/partisanship-and-the-speed-of-withdrawal/comment-page-1/#comment-657981 Kirsten Derynioski Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:10:05 +0000 http://blog.psaonline.org/2008/01/31/partisanship-and-the-speed-of-withdrawal/#comment-657981 That Democrats and Republicans can afford to live in such completely different realities is due in large part to the fact that the war is not a reality to the vast majority of Americans. It’s an abstract concept that we can either tune out or take in at our leisure, which is why it’s so much easier to revert to political gamesmanship over the “facts.”

I just came across an article in an online publication that claimed we were in a Second Cold War. Clearly, the student who wrote it is completely confused over the definition between a hot and cold war. Perhaps it is “cold” in his academic setting, but others sent to fight have fired, been fired upon, and in some instances injured, maimed, or killed, thereby making this War on Terror most definitely “hot.”

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