A Barack and a hard place
Submitted by Jonathan on Wed, 2007-02-14 21:47
From an article of the same title by Neil Steinberg in the Chicago Sun-Times:
A dozen American soldiers are ordered to swim the Atlantic Ocean.
Imagine any scenario to explain why: The president wants them to demonstrate the supremacy of our way of life, perhaps.
All 12 drown, of course.
Was their sacrifice a waste?
I would say yes -- a doomed endeavor initiated for a bad purpose by a deluded leader.
Does this mean I don't support a strong military? No. Does this mean I don't respect those doomed soldiers, who bravely followed orders and waded into the surf? Not at all.
We are allowed to differentiate between individual heroism and a larger pointlessness.
re: A Barack and a hard place
Too bad that wasn't Barack's come back.....I thought he kind of stumbled through th eback lash instead of sticking by what he said with an explanation like this.