| There is something most certainly worth fighting for. That thing is FREEDOM. There is, however, something else that may not be totally perfect, but it still is worth defending and keeping healthy and alive: DEMOCRACY. The U.S.A. has one long history being leader and defender of Freedom and Democracy throughout the world. It is so not only because of convictions, but also because a few countries of the world are willing to defend both. In addition, the U.S.A. is the only one with the resources and the military might to do what someone must do against people intimidating peace, and threatening the life and well being of those with good will.
I presently have my own son fighting in Iraq. My neighbors and friends also have their own son fighting in Iraq. This all means that I know how it feels to have loved ones in a war, and involved in combat. Additionally, I have been blessed with the intellect and intelligence to fully comprehend the reasons why they are risking their lives. there is, however, something awfully hard for me to understand fully,
to decipher in reasonable manner, and to accept so I can be in peace
with it in my mind and heartIt has been countless the number of wives and relatives of Army soldiers and Marines fighting in Iraq that I have seen on television, or heard on the radio, complaining and blaming the U.S. military ~and even the president~ for not permitting their husbands or close relatives to come back home as often as they thought.
Those beings who posses honest and realistic motives to become warriors ~and enjoy the intellect to fully comprehend what it means what they are doing~ are first trained and then deployed to fight wars.
When a warrior leaves his home and his loved ones, there certainly is one very strong faith in that he will come back home alive; and a not less strong hope in that he will do so in one piece. Still, and regardless of how strong feelings of faith and hope may be, both are an un-certainty simple because there are no possible ways to anticipate who might get wounded or killed, when wars will end, and what contingencies may develop requiring those warriors to remain in battle fields. when a warrior leaves home and loved ones behind, there is
only a CERTAINTY to be counted on: there is no precise nor
an accurate way to know when that warrior will come back* Does it really involve such a high degree of intelligence to conceive
and to deduce that going out there to fight a war cannot be done
looking at a calendar planning a return ?
* Is it so hard to realize that going out there to fight a war is not like
a 9 to 5 job in which men can be anticipated to come back home at
a scheduled time such as 5:30 or 6:00 PM ?
Wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters of soldiers fighting in Iraq ~or another war for that matter~ ought to themselves and to everyone in the U.S.A. to chew, to swallow, and to comprehend that their men are Army soldiers and Marines. Like my son and my neighbors', those men elected for themselves to become warriors; and warriors leave home to fight wars. When and if they will come back from conflicts that can become a point of no return is un-certain.
Guessed, estimated, and even scheduled times to an eventual return can so easily be changed by the fluid nature of war. Its unforeseen events and contingencies force and often dictate high ranking military officers to make a sudden change at any given time, and the need to make changes is likely to be mandatory.
Complaining and pointing with a finger at their own government, their own president, and their own military cannot be the kind of heart felt support that our institutions and our warriors risking their lives would morally benefit from.
Not to mention the kind of message those not so wise words, feelings of resentment, and absence of intellect send to people of the free world observing the U.S.A. in times of war, and watching the citizens of the most advanced and developed country in the world to see how advanced and developed their intelligence really is. In war: resolution to fight.
In victory: magnanimity.
In peace: wisdom and goodwill.
- Sir Winston Churchill
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