Burn the bastards? The bastards we are spending so much blood and gold to liberate? There's a tight circle of contradiction that's getting tighter by the day in Iraq.
Half of me says we're scr**ed on this and the other half just loses focus and has vague ideas of a better future. The people who hate us are the people we went to save. Can anyone offer me some realistic hope of antagonim against the US - from the people we are dying to save - decreasing over the next few years? I am not talking about WHY they should be grateful - we all know they should - but about the facts on the ground.
My kid's 17 and I guess this will be hanging over him until it's done with. Should I encourage him to enlist? To fight for what? People who want to kill him? I worry if this drags on he'll have to go over to credits for college. [Joke, but you know what I mean]
I think the bastards we should be burning figuratively and literally are the "insurgents" (AKA "terrorists") in Iraq who oppose liberation. Forget the PC nonsense and go after them-tell the UN to take a hike. Ours is a military family, and if there is one thing we hate, it is seeing diplomats and hand wringing liberals keeping our military from doing their job-namely fighting to win now so they can come home.