A "war surtax" should be more than just a sign of frustration

There's lot of other stuff in this article, but the point that stands out to me is the idea of passing a "war surtax": "Pressure Builds Over Obama's Afghanistan Plan." I cannot think of a better tool than an explicit tax for rebalancing Americans' attitudes towards defense spending, which in my opinion has been characterized in recent years by thoughtless jingoism and willful ignorance of the costs of our foreign adventures. Either you "support the troops" and are thus willing to pay for it, or you don't. I would be willing to bet that as soon as that tax hit Americans' wallets, the option to wind down our commitment in A-stan would at least be on the table. Hey, we might even ask why we're willing to spend hundreds of billions of dollars rebuilding Afghanistan, while people freak out about how we're much spending to rebuild our economy...