Leadership not politics it key to winning any battle...

I am a firm beleiver that there is a time and place for everything. What was good for the last 8 years may not be good for the next 4. We are in desperate need of a leader, not a politician. For at least the next 4 years we need decisiveness not waivering. It is a known fact that you cannot please all of the people all of the time but you can please most of the people some of the time and I beleive this is one of those times. The pacifists speak louder than most and that's why we hear all of the "We need to get our of Iraq stuff". Reality is a bitch some times and we are in a unique position to press the American policy of projection of power from Iraq and Afghanistan. To pull out would be a major mistake. We need to stay if for nothing else we get to live in the back door of every fundamentalist Muslim country that hates our guts. If they want to fight I say we give it to them but on their soil...not ours.

I know at times it sounds like I'm a war monger but the reality is that war at its most basic fundamental makes me sick. One human being being asked to take another human beings life goes against anything most of us in the past through our moral/religious upbringing says is wrong. But it's our whole way of life that is being challenged. Whether you beleive it is right or wrong to fight war we are not being left much of a choice if we don't want to have to fight it on our own soil. The longer our children don't have to be exposed to the brutalities of war the better I feel so if we have to stay in the middle of the "sand box" and fight insurgents and Iranian made weapons if our current locations I say so be it.

Immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq or Afghanistan at this point in time is and will continue to be a major mistake. Whether you think we were lied to about how we got there to start with we are there now and we as a country cannot afford to leave.

The hardest reality is that soldiers die on both sides everyday in either war so Fathers, brothers and sons put their lives on the line so civilians don't have to and that is the most basic fundamental of American volunteer proffessional military concept of today.

I love this country, I love the fact that we can write this blog and agree to disagree on a daily basis and we don't go to jail for it or better yet bet beheaded and burned or stoned to death for speaking our mind.

Thank you for allowing me to participate and putting up with my absence.

Baddboy