John Kerry also said the following less than three weeks ago,
"We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance," Kerry told a New York Times Magazine writer when asked what it would take for Americans to feel safe again. "As a former law-enforcement person, I know we're never going to end prostitution. We're never going to end illegal gambling. But we're going to reduce it, organized crime, to a level where it isn't on the rise. It isn't threatening people's lives every day, and fundamentally, it's something that you continue to fight, but it's not threatening the fabric of your life," Kerry said in the interview, conducted in August and published Sunday.
And Kerry's top foreign policy advisor, Dick Holbrooke, someone who until recently was figured as Kerry's pick for Secretary of State said this to the New York Times on October 10:
"We're not in a war on terror, in the literal sense," says Richard Holbrooke, the Clinton-era diplomat who could well become Kerry's secretary of state. "The war on terror is like saying 'the war on poverty.' It's just a metaphor. What we're really talking about is winning the ideological struggle so that people stop turning themselves into suicide bombers."
How do you serve under someone who denies the justness of the fight in which you are engaged? If you walked into your CO's office to file an after action report during which your buddy got killed and the CO said, "Son, we shouldn't be here. It's the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time." How would it effect your morale?
I understand your comment. I just think you wrongly deny the American fighting men and women the right to feel pride in a job well done and in their pride at serving their country. Sure it hurts morale. Right now, Kerry is NOT the President. But I was in the reserves during the Clinton era. Many of my friends went to Somalia and other places and gave their lives in what we now consider useless causes. Does that lessen the significance of their sacrifice? The essence of the professional, is in still doing the job to the best of their ability despite a poor CINC. How about the first Delta strike at Desert 1 in Iran? That was a Carter catastrophe and he was perhaps the weakest President in our history. Are the lives lost in the Iranian desert on that mission in vain?