Dear Adeline,
“The reality is Americans are war-weary.”
War-weary? Really? HOW? Do YOU personally know a member of the Armed Forces who has died or been wounded in Iraq? Has your tax bill gone up because of the war? Have you lost any personal freedoms? Are YOU forced to buy items with “ration coupons?” Have you put in extra hours at your job or in voluntary pursuits to “support the troops?”
I’ve got ten bucks that says that your answers to all the above questions are “No.” Accordingly, please don’t claim for the rest of us that we’re “war-weary.” The plain fact is that our engagement in Iraq has affected most Americans little or not at all. You want “war-weary?” Try the Civil War (600,000+ dead, 1861-1865) or World War II (400,000+ dead, 1941-1945) or even Vietnam (57,000+ dead, 1961-1973).
In my humble, yet always accurate, opinion, you’re the type of person who focuses on the loss of 3,000+ of our young men and women in Iraq, but, when told that 25,000 military-age people die in traffic accidents EVERY YEAR, sniffs, “That’s interesting” and then changes the subject.
Yeah, “history” started the day you were born, didn’t it?
