So we should just give up?? I'm mangling this quote right now, but all it takes to let evil succeed is for good men to stand by and do nothing. Letting people destroy their own people is wrong and that is exactly what Saddam was doing. I suppose you would have been against WWII as well?
Your brother just follows orders as he swore an oath to do no matter who is President. If Clinton sent him on some Bullchip war to cover up his latest domestic scandal he would have done it even if he didn't like it or agree with it. Because that is what he swore to do- serve the Executive and this Countries CNC no matter the reason
You are right about that, but what you must understand is that not only is he serving in this war, but he believes in it. And so do I.
The only trouble is that it is sometimes difficult to seperate those who truly love their country and think we are on the wrong course in a war to those who have always hated their country and wish it's destruction.
I don't assume you hate America. I assume that I completely disagree with your ideal of what America is. The Bible says "to whom much is given, much is required." The U.S. is the greatest country on the face of this earth, thanks to the grace of God. He has given us much. In that role, we have an obligation to help fellow man, be he Muslim, Jew or anything else. We are doing our duty in Iraq, as well as fighting an enormous evil in this world. And I do stand by my statement that to fight the evil in it's own court is far better than to sit by and wait 'til it comes here.
And that is why President Bush tells us this is going to be a very long war.
Your tag line, Burkeman1, tells us that we don't need to worry about evil until it gets to us. The evil of terrorism has been killing Americans since the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut on October 23, 1983. That one evil that finally gets to us has been getting to us for nearly 2 decades.
Don't you think it's about time we stopped turning the other cheek? Isn't it time we did something about it? Huh?