Iraq
Posted : March 9, 2007 at 12:49 am [America/Los_Angeles]
As Larry Diamond of Stanford’s Hoover Institution said to me: “America is not at war. The U.S. Army is at war.” The rest of us are just watching, or just ignoring, while the whole fight is carried on by 150,000 soldiers and their families. In an interview last Jan. 16, Jim Lehrer asked President Bush why, if the war on terrorism was so overwhelmingly important, he had never asked more Americans “to sacrifice something.” Mr. Bush gave the most unbelievable answer: “Well, you know, I think a lot of people are in this fight. I mean, they sacrifice peace of mind when they see the terrible images of violence on TV every night.” Sacrifice peace of mind watching TV? What kind of crazy thing is that to say? Leadership is about enabling and inspiring people to contribute in time of war so the enemy has to fight all of us — not insulating the public so the enemy has to fight only a few of us.
- Thomas Friedman, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Know, Don’t Help”
I do at times wonder what the world would have been like today if United States had a President and a Vice President who were not as gung-ho and trigger happy as the two fellas we currently have at the helm.
- Anand
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