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December 28, 2005
The season gets me thinking
Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. These are times for families to be together, to celebrate life, love, and make wonderful memories together for the years to come. This year finds my brother and my father half a world away in Iraq. It's at times like right now that I wonder why it is that our leaders, all of our leaders includes their leaders as well, can't settle their differences themselves on the field of combat. Seriously, who wouldn't have liked to have seen George W Bush and Sadaam Hussein duke it out? I mean this for any country that has a beef with another...instead of the massive military buildups, the sabre rattling, the diplomacy that so often fails, and the endless carnage why don't we just let ours and their decision makers do the fighting? We could sell tickets, make it a holiday...like watching 2 rival football or soccer(real football) teams go at it. But no, instead, those we love wind up being away from their loved ones for months, even years to do their duty.
Those of you that know me should know that I'm very military minded and very much behind our Commander In Chief when it comes to the military. I understand that my aforementioned suggestion is simply not the way the world currently works, but maybe it should be. I just experienced the first Christmas and Thanksgiving of my life as the only man from my family in attendance and it was very sobering.
Posted by james at December 28, 2005 10:32 PM
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