After many, many conversations with the “grunts on the ground” in the War on Terror I can report the following informal conclusions on reasons that do not motivate them to fight:
1. No one is fighting so that a mother can abort her child up to the day before delivery for any reason.
2. No one is eating MREs for 6 months straight so that they can pay higher taxes.
3. No one is risking their life on a daily basis so that “Daddy and His Boyfriend” can be taught to our children in public school.
4. No one is dodging mortar rounds so that trial lawyers can sue companies and doctors into oblivion.
5. Not one grunt is sleeping in the mud so that one day he can register and/or turn-in his personal guns when he gets back home.
Not one of these things is worth risking one’s life for.
Oh, so you noticed my tag line eh?
Even to keep an imperfect deal from getting worse we might sacrifice. But if we don’t make that an offering before God it is all in vain.