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...There never was a good war or a bad peace," Benjamin Franklin wrote to Josiah Quincy in 1773, expressing a simple truth that helps explain why Americans cheer so loudly as the victorious soldiers march through the center of town, leaving behind a trail of limp ticker tape, burst balloons -- and grumbling pundits. Some people will carp at the giddy excess and point out that the U.S. is cheering while the gulf still burns. They may be overlooking something that has changed in the way Americans think about themselves and what their country has achieved...
...hoopla, to be sure, is partly triggered by the fact that Americans have not had much else to cheer about lately, that saluting the soldiers is a welcome diversion from a sagging economy, racial divisiveness and other woes on the home front. But the celebrations cannot be written off completely, or even mostly, as escapism. The war in the gulf was one that most Americans were willing -- but not eager -- to fight, and that distinction has shaped their assessment of its ambiguous aftermath...
Victory was no panacea, but there's lots to cheer about...
Rejoice, O young student, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes. But know thou, on that sacred day, on all these things you will be judged...
...Post, whose lead was followed by U.S. News & World Report, insist they got their scoop by observing that Sununu was an unusually frequent traveler and by demanding his records from the Pentagon. But once Sununu's detractors got wind of the investigation, says a Post staffer, "they called to cheer us on" -- and to provide more details...