Wednesday, February 11, 2004
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THERE'S GOT TO BE A MORNING AFTER
During a break last night, I picked up a NY Times someone had left in the restaurant office and read a column by Thomas Friedman. It was not an anti-war rant; if fact he considers Iraq a just war: "It is a war of the forces of tolerance, pluralism, and decency against the forces of intolerance, bigotry and religious fascism." But realize, he says, that it is 1% of America - the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan and their families at home - who are carrying the whole burden of the war. Friedman had gone from the Super Bowl and to Centcom, the headquarters for the people who run the war and "whose morale, professionalism, and belief in this mission are still amazingly high." He writes: "If you want the antidote to all the creeps in the Super Bowl show, spend a day at Centcom. I promise you, you will walk away with one overriding feeling. We do not deserve these people. They are so much better than the country and the administration they are fighting for. We owe them so much more respect, so much more sacrifice of our own and so much better leadership from a Bush team whose real sin is not hyping Saddam's threat, but sending Americans to remove him without a plan for the morning after."
During a break last night, I picked up a NY Times someone had left in the restaurant office and read a column by Thomas Friedman. It was not an anti-war rant; if fact he considers Iraq a just war: "It is a war of the forces of tolerance, pluralism, and decency against the forces of intolerance, bigotry and religious fascism." But realize, he says, that it is 1% of America - the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan and their families at home - who are carrying the whole burden of the war. Friedman had gone from the Super Bowl and to Centcom, the headquarters for the people who run the war and "whose morale, professionalism, and belief in this mission are still amazingly high." He writes: "If you want the antidote to all the creeps in the Super Bowl show, spend a day at Centcom. I promise you, you will walk away with one overriding feeling. We do not deserve these people. They are so much better than the country and the administration they are fighting for. We owe them so much more respect, so much more sacrifice of our own and so much better leadership from a Bush team whose real sin is not hyping Saddam's threat, but sending Americans to remove him without a plan for the morning after."
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