[NOS2Go4Me]

So, we need to throw away generations of our own soldiers because the rest of the world takes things too far on a regular basis?

Whatever happened to the finality of a war? As terrible as it was, when WWII was over, it was over. These days, politics and religion prolong conflicts long beyond what is necessary to resolve the dispute. We're just eating it up and treating it as the way things are, instead of the way they ought to be.

Why should kids grow up here without their parents? I have friends in the Canadian Armed Forces too... and that includes one guy who just had his son a little over a year ago now. Anyone want to place a bet that that child will stand a more than decent chance of missing out on years of quality time with his father? You're asking kids here to accept war and its by-products in an age where nothing appears to be dealt with in concrete terms. That's not right.

"When's Daddy coming home - when the war is over?"

"Whenever that is..."

We're saving the world, but sacrificing our own families and societies. Generally those we protect are grateful, but the price paid is still an awful one.

That's what I'm saying here. Don't just assume that the cause is just because "innocents" can't defend themselves. They deemed the Taliban evil about 20 years after installing them once Russia was kicked out of Afghanistan.

Afghanistan isn't much more than Somalia with its patchwork of fifedoms and warlords. Look where Somalia is right now... an impasse as far as the involvement of UN troops because there's no government that the UN recognizes nor supports. Afghanistan is one shell away from exactly that scenario.

We deserve to ask questions and question our current role. Otherwise, it becomes a daily monotony of war --> fighting --> send in peacekeepers because the natives can't defend themselves / government is corrupt / government is missing in action / terrorists run the nation.

Ultimately, as governments and multi-national forces are unwilling to deal with unruly and violent societies in definite terms, civilized and democratic societies will become nothing more than "feeder cultures". They'll be a farming ground of able-bodied citizens who live for nothing more than bringing law to the lawless in areas where the law might never take hold.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/06/09...y.ap/index.html

"It means death. It means defending Sudan and Islam," Jalaladin said.

"The root causes of the Darfur conflict are the doing of the Jewish organizations who financed this armed rebellion," he claimed. "We don't want the Security Council to be an instrument of the ugly undertakings of the United States of America."

That pretty much sums up religion as a tool for warfare right there. How do you end a war when an entire country is being rallied against you for untrue reasons? It becomes near impossible.