I don’t think I could have said this any better.
Very eloquently and truthfully stated.
I had never seen the picture at post #13.
It broke my heart as well as it enraged me. Hearing about an event is a sanitized version of seeing it.
Maybe photos like these should be shown to the general public so they have a better understanding of what our guys deal with.
Thanks, Berdie. What modern, pacifist Americans fail to understand, is that fighting war with one hand tied behind your back, only encourages more war.
If America had begun bombing the Middle East back into the stone age after 9/11, it wouldn’t have taken long before those countries began wiping out Al Qaeda and the rest of the radical Muslims themselves.
The War on Terror would have ended within months, if we’d simply unleashed our war machine without restraint. Those countries would be our staunchest allies by now.
Look at where we are instead. Governments across the Middle East are falling, and being replaced with radical Islamist jihad groups. Iraq has been abandoned, and will soon fall to the Muslim Brotherhood. Iran is working on developing an atomic bomb and the means to deliver it trans-continentally. And the war in Afghanistan continues.
What pains me most at this time, is that the stars were aligned for the US to elect another Reagan this year. That person would have turned this whole picture around, but now.... I don’t know what’s going to happen.