This isn't easy for me to write. Mainly because I've enjoyed posting in third person so much lately. Seriously though, I've been in airports in the same situation of those people that Howdy writes about. Let me say right away that I was lucky. I came away from the war with nothing but funny stories (maybe I'll post a couple some time). But when you're standing in that airport, you don't know. You just don't know.
I wish the politicians could look in the faces of these people before they make their arguments. You know what they would see? They would see why they need to play it straight with the American people.
I believe that Americans can take facts and reach rational decisions. They don't need arguments puffed up like Macy's Parade balloons. Arguments held aloft only by fear.
Americans need the truth. And not just truth about why we need to go to war, but they need the truth about what war is.
When the current administration comes in a few months asking you to support the bombing or invasion of Iran, find a soldier. Look in his face. Tell me what you see.
2 comments:
Jeff, I love the song snippets you're posting. Don't be afraid to do one of these as an actual post. I know some of the people miss the comments. But they are better than the posts.
I must confess that I called you from a British Luxury Cruise Ship. I may have told you it was an aircraft carrier at the time. But that was Jose Cuervo talking.
I think my mom is still paying for those phone calls.
A favorite quote of mine from one of my favorite americans, taken from his second inagural address: "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."
Abraham Lincoln
Amen to that - RWP
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