Tuesday, December 1, 2009
National Day of Mourning
Since tonight President Obama will announce an additional 30,000+ troops for Afghanistan, I propose a National Day of Mourning for Wednesday. Let's mourn all the arms and legs and eyes and brains that are going to be lost. Let's mourn the families who will spend the rest of their lives missing the presence of their sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters. Let's mourn all the education and health care and infrastructure that won't be funded because we won't have the money. And finally let's mourn the fact that so very, very few people will lift a finger of protest.
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Florence,
I understand your thoughts and feelings. But unfortunately, we are a nation at war. We have a terrorism problem. And try as he might, Obama just can't deny it anymore. They can call it anything they want, but we Americans have a problem. We are under attack and it's not going to go away.
At least Obama took his time, reviewed everything, spoke to the right people, placed the right people in position, so there should be some confidence in that the right decision is being made.
Who is going to protest all the arms and fingers and body parts that were evaporated on 9/11/01???? All the people who jumped out of the towers to their deaths? Do you want more carnage of American people? This problem is not going to go away. It is only going to get worse. Look at Russia. They just had a terrorist attack their trains the other day killing tens of people. The same thing is going to happen to the NY subways and other trains in USA if we don't fight back.
Obama tried to reason with 'them', apologized for Americans perceived mistreatment, but I am sorry Florence, we are still a nation at war and we must fight back against our enemies.
I support Obama in his decision.
We'll just have to agree to disagree. Let's hope that this time next year we can at least see the end of the tunnel and that we aren't invading Pakistan, Yemen, or Somalia. I think a draft and a war tax would clarify a lot of thinking about how necessary this war is.
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