Comments on: SEALs Dead; Congressional Deadwood Still Kicking

By: james huggins

james huggins — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:42:21 +0000

My deepest respects to all the GIs. They deserve better than the leadership, both civilian and military, that they must endure.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:29:50 +0000

The three basic responsibilities of government are: an impartial judiciary, an internal police function, and a military to defend the Republic.

It was in the last function my father, my uncle, my wife’s father, and all their friends fought in WW II. The focus of that war was much clearer than today’s professed focus.

Reasons and objectives for military actions are much more murky now than 70 years ago, but the one constant, I believe, is the existence of what is commonly called “evil” and its adherents. Men and women, brave and dedicated volunteers, are out there fighting to protect the rest of us and our “Family House”, i.e. the U.S. Remember, politicians direct their engagements, fund their engagements, and establish their engagement’s objectives. That is where the buck stops.

To those honorable warriors and all the others who have died: REST IN PEACE.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 05:17:34 +0000

Sending brave and courageous Americans on a foolish mission does not make them heroes, it makes them victims – victims of both the Taliban who shot at them and the gutless politicians who sent them over for a senseless and undeclared war of Nation Building in Afghanistan.

Even when the SEALS were doing something that would have been sensible like trying to capture (so one could interrogate and then try and fry) bin Laden, it was botched because it was decided just to dispose of him Mafia style when apparently they could have taken him alive.

As an aside, I’ve gotten through the 1st two chapters of Into the Cannibal’s Pot and I have the sneaking suspicion it does not have a happy ending. I am sure there were many brave man in South Africa (like the American Seals) who sadly were forced by politicians to hopelessly watch as their nation was sliding into Zimbabwe-South.

It is hard to “serve the nation” when the nation is heading in the wrong direction.

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 03:10:54 +0000

I just joined the Patriot Guard to go with my new bike. It seemed like the best way to be able to harass my Congressman and still support the troops. The Patriot Guard will accept the individual that is anti-war; but, still stands beside a fallen soldier. I was hoping that joining the guard was only symbolic. But if one of these men is from northern Oklahoma, I guess a trip is in order. A link is provided in case the organization is unknown and someone is curious. http://www.patriotguard.org/

By: NDJ

NDJ — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 23:24:54 +0000

Every sovereign state which enters any war does so admitting that it has no solution to the “threat” (perceived or real, lawfully just or not), and thus send their best to do by force that which it does not have the brainpower or strength of character to implement by other means.

May the citizens of the USA honor and remember their fallen. Salute !