According to various polls conducted, the single most important issue in last week's election was not the Iraq War, not the War on Terror, not even the economy. It was the cultural war.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It seems that elections today are more popularity than they are substantial issues.
The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.
Those are the two issues: Protecting the homeland and stopping the war and going after ISIS in a way that ends the terrorism.
The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.
The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War.
Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.
I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests.
Victory is the most important aspect in Iraq, because victory in Iraq will help us have victory in the War on Terror.