I'm Thinking of A Number - Part I

``If we lose," Karl Rove said "they will follow.''

For the sake of argument, let's accept the Bush administration's premise, that we are in the midst of a global war on terror of uncertain duration and cost, and that the Iraqi war wasn't fabricated from whole cloth to re-elect the president. At this point, there is only one number that would persuade me. That number is: two. Bush has two children, and that neither of them is willing to sacrifice themselves on the alter of liberty at least makes me think that this so-called war is nothing more than a politicized fantasy.