Bellavia: Our Mission is Finally Accomplished… Anyone Care?
One of the best friends of this blog, David Bellavia, puts down his snarky pen and ruminates publicly about the cost of the war in Iraq and what it shouldmean to Americans. He begins;
I understand that there are individuals who opposed the war in Iraq from the very beginning and I believe their passion, although misguided at times, is rooted in a deep desire for peace. What always baffled me was the reaction they had to pro-victory veterans when we came home. As if we were some robotic arm of the Bush White House. It was foreign for them to understand why winning in Iraq was so important.
And ends;
If you can’t bring yourself to give the living the sense of accomplishment for winning a war that many claimed was endless, at least humor the dead. Allow them to rest knowing that the war that took their lives was won because of their sacrifice.
Is that too much to ask for?
I tried to add a few thoughts to David’s post, but it’s impossible. Go read the whole thing.
Category: Military issues, Terror War
It’s Bush’s fault! It’s Bush’s fault! It’s… no, wait, we won. Uh, nothing to see here. Doesn’t exist. Didn’t happen. (In case you wonder what happens when we win and left/liberal types can’t complain about us.)
“I tried to add a few thoughts to David’s post, but it’s impossible.”
Exactly my thoughts. A well written and right on piece.
Great read and the thoughts he puts down are what a lot of people have been thinking. The leftist/anti-war types don’t understand what it means to have victory, because they never think of vicory, only defeat, and look for any reason they can come up with to lose.
I guess, unless you have lived in the kind of oppression that these people lived in, you would never understand what it means to have the opportunity to do the simple task of voting. To determine for yourselves what your destiny will be. It may not be our exact form of government, but to have the democratic tools to make that choice is something many of these people are experiencing for the first time.