We Americans are an impatient lot. If we must engage in warfare, we would prefer it be wrapped up in weeks, not months, and certainly not years like World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. In those wars, we had the draft, so more Americans were engaged in fighting and watching their progress, or lack thereof.

Today, while recruiting numbers have increased in our all-volunteer military, the taste for war among the public has declined. One of President Trump's positions that attracted voters was his promise to end wars, not start new ones.

Granted, any candidate running for president can change his position once in office should circumstances change, as they sometimes do. This is what happened to George W. Bush after 9/11, though that war went on far too long, and while Osama bin Laden, the architect behind the terrorist attack, was eventually killed in 2011 during the Obama administration, the virus that is fanatical Islam will continue to spread if it is not stopped.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has claimed the Iran War is........

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