[netmilsmom]

Then why did the author say it was a good thing?


That is all well and good that the author takes no responsibility to protect himself or his family, but its gutless to advocate a policy of putting a man or women in harms way half a world away as a stand in for terrorist targets.


He said it was a good thing because we have put trained professional soldiers against these thugs instead of our moms and dads, sisters and brothers and mostly our children against them.
No death is a good death, soldier or civilian. At least the soldiers have a fighting chance. My five year old does not.

[JohnGalt]

You seem awfully willing to put someone else's kid in harms way in an effort to abdicate your responsibility to protect your liberties and the liberties of your child.

I think none other than General MacArthur would tell you not to worry:

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
- General Douglas MacArthur
"A Soldier Speaks: Public Papers and Speeches of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur," (1965); Nation, August 17, 1957