Nancy Pelosi in her speech to the House said the election showed that Americans will not support a long war. That may be true, but if so is a bad sign for the United States. That is because a war lasts until one side gives up. If she is correct we can be defeated if the other side won't quit. That happened in Vietnam, where the communists "won" because we went home and then stopped providing material support to our Allies in the South. Mrs. Pelosi needs to consider the comments of the Communist Trotsky, who said, "You may have no interest in war, but war has an interest in you."