if you happen to look at a map of the Mideast with all its turmoil and said "where is the best geographic place to have troops?", you would point to Iraq. That's workin for you, huh?
If you're an old fashioned conservative, concerned ONLY with our national interests, you'd have your troops where the enemy is ... in Pakistan!
It's amazing that there are still Americans--who should understand best the transformative power of democracy--that still don't grasp the
profound accomplishment that Iraq represents, and how important it is to finish what we've started, just as we saw the fight against Nazism and communism to the end.
While some insist on trivializing the war by reducing it to a scorecard of deaths,
the greatest among us are defeating this latest global scourge by striking it at its heart. Terrorist cultures can't be defeated by killing the weeds that grow from them, they must be displaced.
If you can think of a more powerful antidote to terrorist cultures than liberty and democracy, we're all ears.
In the meantime, no terrorist is preventing dissenters from rendering their opinion. The rest of us would only ask that, once you've had your fill of spouting off your opinion for the world to see here on this freely accessible Web site, you might consider
thanking a soldier, sending a package, or helping a family.