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I guess it's easier to send someone else's son or daughter into battle to die.
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Found out today that this household was far more intimately involved in last week's bombing in Baghdad that I originally thought - fortunately, not in a tragic sense - but things like that will cause someone to stop and think. We're not whining - we're very proud of the career choice he's made and fully understand that he will end up where the action is (this trip to Iraq is his 3rd combat tour since 9/11). Thankfully, he has not taken on the ignorant attitude of glee about wanting to go kill bad guys one often hears from ignorant fucks who no longer choose to do that. There is no possibility that he would shirk the opportunity - but given his intelligence, I doubt very seriously he will ever exhibit that sort of false bravado.
I personally don't put much stock in the "bombs vs. butter" arguements. This is a nasty, nasty world we live in. There are all kinds of folks out there with reasons (real or imagined) to attack or challenge the United States. Nothing we can do about that except prepare to meet the challeges, which means that some schools can't be built because we gotta buy some bombs.
Wouldn't hurt us to select targets for those bombs that actually present a clear threat to the United States, though.