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I, too, want to take this opportunity to thank you for your service. I love fellow "sheepdogs."
Here is an excerpt from Thomas P.M. Barnett that I think gives my reason for our actions in Iraq. (Conveys my sentiments)
"We were attacked three years ago, without warning or predicate event. The attack was not a gesture of heroic resistance nor the offshoot of some bright utopian resolve, but the very flower of a movement that delights in the potential for martyrdom expressed in the squalls of the newly born. It is a movement that is about death?that honors death, that loves death, that fetishizes death, that worships death, that seeks to accomplish death wherever it can, on a scale both intimate and global?and if it does not warrant the expenditure of what the self-important have taken to calling ?blood and treasure,? then what does? Slavery? Fascism? Genocide? Let?s not flatter ourselves. If we do not find it within ourselves to identify the terrorism inspired by radical Islam as an unequivocal evil?and to pronounce ourselves morally superior to it?then we have lost the ability to identify any evil at all, and our democracy is not only diminished, it dissolves into the meaninglessness of privilege."