Of Wars Lost and Won

This past week a prominent American political figure declared that the war in Iraq was lost. If that is the case, why are we still there? Why waste one more life on a lost cause? And what of the lives already lost...were they tossed away for nothing?

No. The answer is no. We can win. We will win if we make the decision that defeat and failure are not an option. Regardless of whether an American citizen agrees with going to war in the first place, once we are in a war we must succeed. We must have peace through victory. Nothing else matters once we commit to such a thing as terrible as war we must not quit until we win. One life is too many to throw away in a war that is not worth fighting and winning. So once we have stepped the first irreversible step down the path of war we cannot and must not stop until victory is acheived. Of course we must be willing to do whatever it takes to win, if we are not so willing then we must not begin wars in the first place.

Please let the troops know that you are behind them and support them. The worst thing a soldier can believe is that they or their brothers in arms have sacrificed all for nought. So when you support the troops support the cause and the mission. You do not have to agree with the why or the how but once our Great Nation makes a decision to go to war then we must all be behind the effort. Nothing is more basic than this most simple and fundamental principle of citenzenship and nothing is more critical to the survival of our own or any Nation-State.

When we go to war, we are the good guys and the enemy is evil. There can be questioning or second-guessing that once the battle has begun. Of course, this is what makes the careful discernment of when and why we go to war so incredibly criticial.