A vacuous comment. And typical leftist drivel and moral posturing. Given the size of the military, not one person in 100 is involved in the military. The idea no civilians can support the use of armed force is bizarre.
But to make you feel better; it’s entirely possible that American civilians will die in this war. About 3000 have perished already. If we allow it, thousands – perhaps millions - more will join them in death. The enemy has brought the battlefield here. Try, please, not to think in clichés.
”And remember Mr. Brooks, the real beneficiaries of this evolution (should it go as planned) will be the narrow business interests who will receive contracts based on the reconstruction of Iraq and the extraction of it's oil. All of this will be paid for of course by US Taxpayers, either directly or through front organizations such as the IMF, World Bank, UN, etc.”
Evolution??? David Brooks was writing about YOU!
The real beneficiaries of this new war will be the men, women and children not murdered in the next terrorist attack. The real beneficiaries of this war will be the Iraqis freed from the tyranny of the megalomaniac running that blighted land. The real beneficiaries will be the citizens of the other countries in the Middle East who will have an opportunity to overthrow their own oil glutted oligarchs and mad mullahs.
All that drivel about “narrow business interests” reminds me of the tree hugger who, as millions of acres were blackened by fire, took comfort in the fact that no lumber company had made money by thinning the forest and preventing the fires.
When the govt stops funding, sheparding, and encouraging illegal aliens to come to our shores, when they remove those same aliens from the US and delete their drivers lisc, welfare payments, social security payments and voter registration, when they start to control our boarders, when they stop trying to centralize federal power, stop sending all our industrial businesses overseas (because overregulation makes it impossible to compete for US constructed products) when we stop buying oil from Sadam to finance his operations, then I would believe that the govt is waging an effective war on terrorism. If the war is here, what are we doing there? (And THANKS for the condecending comments - it really elevates the discussion).