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Originally Posted by The Tony Show  Thank you- I will. 
We're extremely proud, not only that he chooses to serve and continues to seek the most difficult training he can get, but also of what he's accomplished. When one man comes back from the front lines with so many stories of captured bomb making homes filled to the roof with explosives, weapons and training materials instructing others how to do it, it makes you aware of just how much is being accomplished over there every day.
War isn't pretty and doesn't happen overnight. Everyone expected Iraq to buckle and institute a Democracy overnight like this is some Hollywood movie, but it doesn't work that way. A lot of people have seen WWII movies like Saving Private Ryan, but apparently they've never really seen them. When compared to every other major engagement our Country has been involved in, our casualties are shockingly low. |
Guys like your brother, not athletes, commentators, or politicians make this country able to stand up and thrive.
Our own country didn't become a working democracy just because our Army, Navy, and Marine Corps were formed in 1775, or just because we signed a piece of paper declaring independence from Britain. We had to continue fighting the British until 1783, and even then, we did not have the Constitution until 1787. This is to say nothing of how this country was invaded by a foreign power, threatened with invasion and diplomatic sabotage, and was nearly split apart in a Civil War seventy-three years later.
If our own government took so long to set up, then how can any rational person think that Iraq is just going to stabilize, and that it isn't going to take both American and Iraqi blood to do so?