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August 12, 2010
The Truth is Known to the Troops
Nothing speaks the truth like the experience of war. Its lethality and pathos grinds the meaning out of the trivial. Soldiers who return home suffer few illusions. For all the policy debates, and especially talking points blathered out by the Administration about our relationships with the Muslim world - very little will stand up to the truth known by American soldiers who have been to Iraq and Afghanistan. There are more than a million of them. Their opinions will not be bought.
Posted by Vanderleun at August 12, 2010 10:28 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
When one has heard shots fired in anger, been deafened by exploding incoming they've experienced half the totality. The balance of the perception is olfactory; that never leaves you, those smells wake you up in the middle of the night, at odd times flash back to the acrid back of the throat tang of cordite, coppery odor of blood, of bowels and piss, shit and fearsweat.
Tell me that we should fight a surgical war, a nice clean war, with the ROE to try and "make friends" because some politician wants to get re-elected... and your buddy is lying in the dirt with no face. You cannot tell the troops squat, or spin anything about war!
Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck at August 12, 2010 4:53 PM