During any given day, we here multiple comments about the War in Irag. You can’t avoid. If you are trying to just “tune out” because it’s too depressing, too overwhelming or to infinite, your plans are soon foiled by the person in front (or behind) you at Starbucks.
“I can’t believe Clinton claims she was opposed to the War.” That was the unsolicited comment I heard today when picking up coffee.
Fusose Talks makes some very important observations about the difficult aspects of this War and how the U.S. soilders are expressing themselves. A few months ago I met a solider that had recently returned from Iraq. We were in mixed company and another person made a comment about losing weight. She went on and on about how it’s hard: temptation is everywhere, blah, blah, blah. After 15 minutes of being polite, he told her that if she wanted to lose weight she should enlist in the U.S Army. The room was dead silent.
“Just spend 18 months in 140 degree heat with a 50-pound back-pack eating meals out of a zip-lock bag and you’ll lose more weight than you could ever imagine.”
Fusose Talks blogged about how soilders are, indeed, human and the War in Iraq is very real for the people that live it every day. I believe the U.S. citizens think about it more often than anyone gives them credit for, but they feel powerless when it comes to voicing their opinion and getting a response from the people who are making the decisions. And age-old problem indeed, but difficult nonetheless.
