Dan – first of all, let me say that your intentions are the ultimate in noble. And, America ought to thank God for patriots such as yourself. It’s the men on the front line that have thus far kept this country free.
The concern that I am developing is with our “leadership”. And, the particular concern that I have causes me to fear that noble patriots such as yourself are simply being discounted in leu of a political war.
While our leadership gets on a conference call and discusses the best possible date for everyone to fly into Camp David so as to discuss a “plan/direction for Iraq”.. and, the appropriate people decide what dinner ought to be served.. and all of the political attendees pre-sort all of their hidden agendas, our brave soldiers are forced to flounder in a guerilla war in which their hands are often tied behind their backs. Perhaps you will be asked to fight hand to hand combat with non-uniformed armed terrorists in a graveyard in Sadr City – God forbid we opt instead to call in an airstrike and erase the Iranian/Syrian-backed terrorist murders from the planet. No, you will likely be asked to search for them – one-by-one – by knocking on doors. And, Dan – at that moment, although you will be under more pressure than any other person living on the planet, DO NOT dare shoot anyone. If you do, you may very well find yourself in shackles in the brig at Camp Pendleton, facing a court martial, and completely abandoned by the leadership that you originally opted to fight for.
Drastic times call for drastic measures. Our leadership is trying to kill a mound of ants by sitting naked in the antbead and individually squishing each ant with a pair of tweazers. War is horrific. War is dirty. Colateral damage happens. If we do not fire up our B-52s and stealth bombers soon, the only colateral damage we’ll know is that of our own American cities. Ground forces are meant to secure an area that has been devastated by an air assault. The idea of dropping good-intentioned patriotic soldiers into an extremely volatile region in which the enemy combatants look like the civilians!! Then, the leadership imprisons soldiers who accidentally shoot civilians!! The longer we wait before using brute force, the more brute the force will eventually have to be.
or, we can just keep being cowards and hope the islamo facists go away.
