As our young men and women spend the next month sweating in the 130 degree heat of a Baghdad summer, risking their lives to build a better future for the Iraqi people, the elected representatives of the people of Iraq – men who will have a hand in running that future our military is trying to build for them – have decided to beat the heat and take the month off.
It is totally, completely, incomprehensible.
It’s not our business, and should not be the business of the American military, to build a “better future” for any people other than those of the United States of America. Also, if the military’s mission can be described as “building a better future,” it should be in the context of them killing people and breaking things to subdue and conquer enemies so that Americans in America are safer and have a “better future.”
Just as the whole of the Balkans wasn’t worth the bones of one single Pomeranian musketeer, according to Bismarck, the whole of the Middle East isn’t worth one single drop of sweat perspired by a single member of the American Armed Forces.
