[August]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

August, im not picking on you, only these 3 words that orginally came out of George W Bush's mouth.

These words are hallow, empty, meaningless rhetoric. Spoken, trumpeted, repeated, and is the patriotic battle cry by people who have absolutely nothing to directly deal with the situation they're supporting. Its easy to support "the course" when your not the one who has to travel it. Its as if your in support of gambling with other peoples lives, with zero risk to yourself.

These words are meaningless unless spoken by the men doing the fighting. If your not there, nor you, or i, have any buisness speaking words like these.

Well obviously i disagree. "Stay the course" as a term was not invented by George Bush. No war has ever gone well from the beginning. One should never start anything that one isn't willing to see through.

For example in 1862 things looked pretty bad for the Union. There were many calls to quit on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line but thank God for our nation that there were people like Lincoln in charge who stayed the course and kept this country from fragmenting into a collection of nation states.

Skip to 1940. Hitlers u-boats were roaming the atlantic squeezing the lifeblood from England while his bombers raided London day and night.

In these and many other conflicts throughout our history there were voices calling for us to quit or stay out of it. Leave the British and French to fend for themselves.

Support for a conflict MUST come from BOTH the troops "over there" and the folks back home. Maybe my opinion is indeed meaningless but then again i don't see the opposite side of this debate asking the troops over the what they want either.

I have relatives, friends and former comrades, people i served with in the Army, "over there" and they are telling me their biggest fear is that they will be pulled out before they can finish the job. If that happens their sacrifices will indeed be meaningless.