Jon Stewart

Now that's, I think that's very interesting.

You know, why have we lost that, not to use a phrase that I picked up somewhere, I can't remember where it came from, audacity of hope.

What has happened to this idea?

Because I can tell you, I think people generally feel that the United States either has an unrealistic expectation of how it projects its power or an inability to project it in a way that doesn't play to the individual basis here.

At some point, you cannot rely on these military families to continue to sacrifice in the manner that they have.

Right.

If you're saying to me, this is a 30-year war, well, only 1% of the country's invested in that, and that's military families, and we've put already way too much pressure on them.

We have a VA system that can't handle the casualties that have already come back from there.

So how can any of us believe this is...

a realistic battle or that our government is willing to do it?

Why is there not talk of a draft?

Why is there not talk of a mobilization of resources?

Even in crisis, and people wanted to applaud the fact that they're a crisis.

We govern by crisis.

Chaos!

Anarchy!

Governing by crisis, though, seems like it would present opportunity.

That, you know, when they say there's always an opportunity in crisis, that through crisis, either there would be an enormous executive overreach, which some people say has happened but does not appear to be the case.

The financial crisis, you would have thought, okay, that's a crisis.

Within that crisis, we have an opportunity to reform it by fiat to some extent.