My older brother - who is an Army revervist - has recently been informed that he will be sent to Iraq in the near future. His time with the reserves was nearly over, and if no doubt this was part of why he is being sent.
The saving grace to this is that he's a mental-health specialist, not a combat soldier. This means he'll be attached to a base attending to the needs of soldiers, which will - I hope, I hope - be safer than if he were going on the patrols himself.
If I ever hear that opponents of the war 'don't support the troops' or are secretly happen when Americans get killed, I don't know if I will be able to contain myself. This war is the product of bloodless think-tanks and armchair heroes for whom the value of a soldier's life is a purely political calculation.
5 comments:
liberalkerry,
don't be an asshat
I am proud of my brother. He's providing a valuable and needed service. And, for the record, he's totally against Bush and against this war.
liberalkerry, it's bad enough that you fill my blog with painfully unfunny satire, but now you've crossed the line. Either get real, or go and bother someone else.
May your brother's time there be safe.
All the best to him.
kerry4eva,
I hope you are embarrassed of your behavior. This is neither the time nor the place to rehash arguments about the war.
Loyal,
I wish your brother well. My prayers go with him.
While I did a post a while back stating my arguments for not "supporting the troops" I hope you can understand the political difference between my position on the war and my hope that your brother comes to no harm. This is far to complex a position for the mind of liberalkerry but I think you can understand the paradoxical nature of being a humanitarian dissenter.Stop the next war now.
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