I have not posted anything about the war on my weblog before, and I don’t intend to make it a habit. But I’m going to just this one time. I had lunch with my sister today, and she told me of a good friend of hers whose son is a marine in Iraq. This young man wrote a letter to his mom, which included two questions (paraphrased here):
I hear a lot about the protests, and how people back home are so opposed to this war and what we’re doing…why?
and
It doesn’t seem like there’s a big display of patriotism back home right now, like there was after 9/11 (people displaying flags, etc.). Why not?
Good questions – and not questions I want our troops to have to think about, while bullets are flying past their heads.
I, for one, am totally 100% behind our troops and what they’re doing. I don’t necessarily agree with everything our administration does, but once the decisions are made, they have my full support. The time for protest has passed.
And I’m going to look for a flag to put outside my house. I’m proud to be an American. And if any of our troops or their families read this, I’d like to say thank you.
Count me in. I agree that the time for protest is over. Anyone capable of gassing 60,000 of his own citizens can have my boot applied to his throat. I’m sick of living in a world where countries that can make a difference don’t bother to do something about what’s going on around them. Where the hell was France when Hitler was rearming in 1935? How about Austria and Czechoslovakia in 1938? How about Serbia when the US went in stop the slaughter without UN approval? I’m not naive enough to think that there aren’t vital US interests in the Gulf, but so what? The fact is that the world is more concerned about US hegemony that about some 5 foot nothing spoiled brat in north korea building nuclear weapons or some petty dictator in Iraq gassing his own people.
Well said Greg! I could not agree more. I have a good friend who served as a marine in the Gulf War and I have learned a lot from him. Support your country, support your troops. They may be defending you in a future war you do support! Wonder if those protesters think about that?
” don’t necessarily agree with everything our administration does, but once the decisions are made, they have my full support. The time for protest has passed.”
So what if your administration decides something that goes against your interessests and your credo, let say prohibiting gatormail, saying it’s supporting “the axe of evil”? Are you still 100% behind them? Would you have been during the McCarty period?
Joey
The flag is flying here too. And my wife is running http://www.2frogs.net/carepackages.htm to put our bandwidth where our mouths are.
Here’s a fairly comprehensive list of volunteer and charity work that can be done for the
kids overseas in harm’s way.
http://windsofchange.net/archives/003234.html