I am glad this helped everyone the same way it helped me.
Sure, I know it is not easy over there for our military.
I know people aren't always putting flowers in the barrels of their guns. I know they have people over there who want them dead, and it could happen at the most unexpected time such as an incoming rocket while they are eating a Halliburton provided lunch on base between patrols or an IED while on patrol.
It is too easy to lose sight of the fact that what we are doing is a noble and good thing. Sure, it is in our interests to do so, but that does not change the nature of what we are doing.
We are shedding American blood and spending American money to try to change the lives of people over in that part of the world, hoping it will be a seed that will spread and reduce the pressure of Islamofacism on us and everyone else around the world. It may ultimately fail, and there are many, both at home and abroad, who fervently wish it to fail. I would like to think there is a chance, however slight, it may work. I believe it is not just our national destiny, but our responsibility as human beings to spread our way of life to others, if we can.
It is too easy to get bogged down in the negativity, because we are all bathed with it from the news media.
I have to admit: I get all of my news from the Internet. I do not watch television, and I do not read newspapers (I live in Massachusetts...I would have to read the Boston Globe. You get the idea.)
But yesterday, I had CNN forced on me for about an hour while I waited for my car to be repaired. Blaring volume, plasma display in the waiting room. It was disgusting. I have included a response I posted. Look at the top five items covered by CNN during that time I sat there.
This was in response to a poll on Hurricane Katrina saying that a certain percentage of people thought global warming contributed specifically to Hurricane Katrina:
"Gee, it couldn't be because people are hammered contantly by all aspects of the MSM opining that global warming is going to have all kinds of dire consequences from reduced bird habitats to coastal communities being immersed in the ocean.
I do not watch television, so this morning, when I waited for my car to be repaired, I watched CNN in the waiting room. Here were the five subjects covered, in the rough order they were covered:
1.) Reenlistments and their negative effects on Iraq deployments.
2.) Negative political ramifications of the war in Iraq for Republicans.
3.) Waning support by the public for the war, and how they see Iraq as having nothing to do with the war on terror.
4.) Jon Benet Ramsey.
5.) Global warming and the coming monster hurricanes.
THIS is why I do not watch television, and I DO NOT read newspapers."
Couldn't have said it better myself.