[+/-] Who have we become?

Good questions, all:

Have we changed as a people so as to be willing, as the polls show us, to re-elect men and women who have misled us and lied to us every step of the way? Are we willing to accept the fact that, even as our American losses topped 1,000 this week, we probably also killed up to 2,500 'insurgents' in only the last week? Have we, the rational, 'exceptional' people of our history, been overtaken by the war fever and that same identification with the demented warrior-leader as lesser peoples throughout history?