It is amazing how so many left & right condemn the Iraq invasion of '03...
9/11/01 changed the landscape forever in my opinion...
Afghanistan will continue to be a unenviable task to combat, I am not convinced we will succeed, we will have to step up the numbers to win, but I do not believe we can afford to walk away...
My cousin was injured on the 15th by a IED along with three members of his patrol in Afghanistan, Thank God for Armored Vehicles, and after the initial shock, my first thought was why didn't we level Pakistan for hiding OBL?
My brother in law is deployable on the 28th and I hate the thought that he has to go, but I will tell you one very common thread between the two of them, they believe it is their duty to be there...
I have now seen this first hand on a personal level twice, it's meaning runs very deep and very emotionally as well, if I was selfish about this I wouldn't want either of them to be exposed, If I am rational about this, I wouldn't want anyone to die in the perfect world and would say give peace a chance, but neither of those choices are dealing with reality...
No reality is what we faced when Truman chose to drop the Atomic Bombs some 65+ years ago and today we are faced with the same realities, yet we are waffling at best...
If we walk as some suggest, who is willing to bet we will never deal with something worse than 9/11/01?
We need to finish the job, anything less will leave us vulnerable for years to come, this is not about who or what we supported in the past, it's about our future...