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Advertisement -  « News Home  HOW HE SEES IT War has no
consequence for many of us     Millions of Americans probably
learned about last week's horrific attack on U.S. troops in
Mosul while wrapping Christmas presents or stuffing packages
into the SUV after a last-minute shopping blitz at the mall.
That jarring juxtaposition may be the perfect symbol for the
Iraq war. This grueling, grinding conflict is skittering through
American life like a tornado that tears one house to the ground
in every neighborhood, while leaving all those around it
unscratched.  For the military personnel on the front lines --
and their family and friends -- the war is exacting bitter
costs. For all other Americans, even for the officials whose
decisions sent those troops into battle and shaped the
conditions under which they are fighting and dying, the war is
imposing no discernible consequences. Like the Civil War, wh