Monday, May 30, 2005

Memorial Day a la Andy Rooney

Generally, I find CBS's Andy Rooney to be irritating, but every once in awhile, he nails it dead-on correct. Sunday night's 60 Minutes was one time Rooney got it right: " We say that these people gave their lives. But their lives were not given-- they were taken from them. There is more bravery at war than in peace, and it seems wrong that we have so often saved this virtue to use for our least noble activity - war. The goal of war is to cause death to other people." This Memorial Day, let's all pray for peace. Watch Rooney's video... he is really right about what we need to do to end this insanity, b/c our soldiers are burnt out and ready to come home... or bail and we had better heed the warning b/c we are well on our way to having a broken military, and things for Iraqi civilians and troops are not looking optimistic when Iraqi doctors are bailing. If you ask Juan Cole, our troops are screwed, unfortunately, and the civil problems in Iraq must be solved by Iraqis... not us or religion... yet, Bush keeps telling us "all is well"... we had better wake up soon.
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