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Nation at war?

  • Justin Webb
  • 29 Dec 07, 05:51 PM GMT

Mike Huckabee campaigns in Ottumwa, Iowa, 28 Dec 2007The row in full swing here over whether Mike Huckabeemessed up when asked his initial reaction to the news from Pakistan is part of a wider, so far unanswerable, question.

It is this: will the election of 2008 be a "post-war" election? Obviously as a matter of fact it will not be: but, will Americans, hungry for the pleasures of peace, turn it into one?

Plainly the Democrats would benefit from that - and I know some conservatives (James Pinkerton is one) who fear it may be the case. Does Pakistan help the cause of keeping the US focused on the task at hand?

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