rawquip
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| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 4:30 pm Post subject: Uncommon Sacrifice and Individual Valor |
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Uncommon Sacrifice and Individual Valor
Of all the specious talking points which are spewed on any given talk shows by the Bush sycophants, the most injurious of them all—and most un-American—has to be the “we hit them there so they don’t hit us here” propaganda. It misses the point to argue that Iraq had nothing to do with 911, in order to grasp the true mendacity of that statement, all one has to do is turn on a television set to see the face of the dying men and women of our nation.
The cute game they play is one of word association: we hit them in Baghdad so they don’t hit us in Boston, we hit them in Mosul so they don’t his us in Missouri, we hit them in Hadithah so they don’t hit us in Houston. Besides the obvious malevolent statement of discounting Iraqi lives, the sheer audacity of these talking points is that it attempts to throw a veil over our eyes. The truth is that we are being hit everyday; as we commute to work, some GI’s mother in St. Louis just received word of her son’s violent death in Samara. As we sip a morning cup of coffee from Starbucks, a wife in Topeka just learned of her husband’s maiming by an IED in Tikrit. While we shop on black Friday, a child in Nashville just learned of his father’s passing in Najaf.
While death and carnage is shown everyday in Iraq, we somehow manage to go on with our lives. The faces of the fallen on television has become a fact of life to most of us, we have become desensitized to this war and it’s depravity. Today I saw a television show on Fox where three men were actually debating the value of this war on Wall Street. One actually said “Wall street likes that fact that we went over there…go big and get the job done, Wall Street likes decisiveness”. One’s man’s loss has always been another man’s gain, but one hopes that cynicism and greed have their bounds—apparently they does not.
Our nation has always been at its greatest when we pulled together for a common cause. World War II was exemplary of our shared sacrifice, when the nation gained and lost as a whole. A mother in Boston was just as worried about her son as a mother in Baltimore, a wife on Wall Street
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