Hmmm, reading this is practically giving me a flashback. Where's my free love?
BTW, are you an old retread from the 60s, or just channeling the spirit of one of my college classmates?
Look, you need to face up to a couple of life's [unpleasant] realities. The war in Iraq is mean, ugly, and not to be over in 120 minutes or less, as everything is in Hollywood. It is hard and drawn out. There is no guarantee of success in our acting, but most certainly a guarantee of failure if we do not.
My guess is that I've been around a lot longer than you have. FYI, we did not start terrorism, we are not responsible for the terrorists and their actions. They will not go away if we desist in pursuing them, or try to "make nice". This is kill or be killed, and you are deluding yourself if you think otherwise. Likewise, this is not a conflict that will end in a clear cut manner, with the defeated signing a document of surrender. It will go on and on, waxing and waning depending on our willingness to do the difficult and sometimes brutal things necessary.
Be a serious student of history. The world didn't start 30 years ago and neither did terrorism. History, past and present, is brutal. And peace signs, candles, protests and socialist ideals haven't and won't change that.
We may be a long way from perfect, but we are most certainly the good guys. And I, for one, have no shame in believing that my life is more important than the lives of those who wish to kill me and my family and my contrymen. And if they must die in order to prevent them from killing me (or you), so bit. It is their choice.
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