Forever takes just a moment these days

I left my TULSI sticker on the Subaru's bumper until a few weeks ago, despite Ms Gabbard's complaints about "forever wars." Because yeah, the unpleasantness in Iraq and Afghanistan had gone on for a rather long time. But now it seems that "forever," in the case of Ukraine, is a couple of years, both on the dreamy left (see Noam Chomsky) and on the hillbilly right (see JD Vance).

As for the "Zionist entity," situated uneasily between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Mr Chomsky has had less to say, but his acolytes in our better universities are speaking for him. What is it about Americans, that we have so little staying power? Where were Mr Chomsky, Harvard, Yale, and Columbia when we were showering incendiaries and bunker-busters German women and children? I don't recall any pleading for ceasefire now! in 1944. Apparently we can afford to be noble only when it's Ukainians and Israelis who are dying on our behalf.