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November 28, 2004
Email From Iraq: In Service To The Queen
Topics: Middle East News and PerspectivesRead the following email excerpt from a Battalion Commander in Iraq to a blogger.
........This war on terrorism will be with us for some time, so I offer an open letter to the generation I will pass this burden on to.
I
believe that we are making progress in Iraq and in Afghanistan. Despite
the ravings of pundits and uninformed ambulance chasers, this fight
doesn't' hinge on oil or payback. It isn't about religion or race. And
it damn sure is not about any innate desire to rule the world. These
people will succeed or fail on their own merits. The task is daunting.
You can release a person from bondage. You can remove a tyrant from
power. You can create the conditions for liberty. But, you cannot
simply grant or proclaim freedom. Freedom without honest action is a
whisper in a storm just as change without vision and purpose is the
illusion of progress. For ages these people were literally beaten to
the point of submission by oppression, censure, murder, torture, and
rape - regardless of age or gender. I have asked myself why they let it
happen. The only answer I can fathom is that evil flourished because
good people refused to pay the price required to oppose it..........
Now Read The Rest At CBFT!
In offering an over simplification to the email, one might say that we are hearing that freedom isn't free, that horror existed before the war and will continue elsewhere long after the war, that the brutal truth is that we are facing a formidable enemy called Islamic terrorism in one place and facism in another - and both are equally vicious, that our nations' greatest wealth - the lives of our sons and daughters, fathers, friends, husbands and wives, grandchildren and even grandparents, will be spent in order that those of us at home may live in freedom.
Posted by Hyscience at November 28, 2004 7:05 PM
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