Watching American missiles slam into residential Baghdad and the hundreds of wounded and killed Iraqis not only is saddening but again comes the realism that we are in a war that cannot be won. Rocket attacks, regardless of the mission objectives, makes us look incredibly bad. And, watching this little boy, dead, pulled from the rubble after an attack leaves me as an American shaking my head. Do the terrorists use civilians and hospitals as hiding places? Of course they do. It is the nature of a guerrilla war and even more the nature of war in urban areas.
It took a young twenty something to bring the war into focus for me recently. He said something like, "with all the money, the controversy, the various spins, regardless of what side one is on, this fight is killing us spiritually." Maybe so but rockets fired by Americans to get the bad guys while killing innocents caught in the crossfire makes me realize that simply, we can't win this fight and as my bud says, spiritually, it is killing us. God help us.
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