[Grovenet] Tillman's wife: Real leaders needed

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

>From what I've read there were thousands, perhaps in excess of 100,000 of
just such incidents in WWII. The officers who had to write the families
often avoided saying it was due to "friendly fire". 
 
There's nothing nice, humane or civilized about war. War requires people who
are not nice, humane or civilized to fight it and to direct those who do the
fighting. The first step in creating a soldier is to take a civilized human
being and teach him to behave in a very uncivilized manner. 
 
That's true of all the sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, wives, husbands,
friends and acquaintances we have sent to war. Some of them, when they
return home, may be able to put on a mask of civilization again and embrace
a life free from wanton violence. 
 
Some won't. 
 
So why do we do that? Why do we choose war? At least when Pear Harbor
underscored the failure of FDR's get-tough policy to force the Japanese to
back down in the eastern Pacific, he had no choice but to fight if the USA
was to survive. 
 
President Bush brought us voluntary pre-emptive war as a means to force our
way in the world. The advantage of that is that we get to start a war on our
schedule, not the enemy's. What it doesn't do is provide us with a way to
end the war on our schedule, as the President has discovered. 
 
Last evening I heard a line that rang true for me in a play about WWII. The
American forces were trying to recruit a Frenchman to help the spy on the
Japanese in the Pacific. He refused. 
 
The American officers, astonished, said, "Don't you realize we're fighting
the Japanese?"
 
"I understand what you're against," the Frenchman replied. "What I don't
understand is what you are for!" 
 
Ron D'Eau Claire 

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Boy, oh boy, is the following the truth . . . 

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bob "tell it like it really is, and not like we would like it to be"
browning