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Originally posted by SapphireSphinx9
Let's just hope and pray that everyone comes back safe!
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We all should do that. I certainly do. But it likely won't happen. That's not how wars work.
That may be why many of us who have gone through a war, want to be ABSOLUTELY sure that all of the other possibilities have been exhausted before the first official shot if fired.
Most GCers, if they remember a war at all, think of the first Mid-East war in which there were only 100, or so, US casualties. I would argue that we didn't really finish that campaign, because Saddam's government wasn't toppled.
Unfortunatley, that isn't the way it usually works. In Vietnam, we had over 50,000 KIA's and hundreds of thousands of injuries. Everyone knew someone who was serving, was killed or seriously injured. A man in my high school class was killed within months of graduation.
When we go to war this time (I wish I could say "if," but it appears the administration is hell bent on it's course), I fervently pray that it is a quick and decisive campaign, run by our professional military -- and not a protracted, politically controlled event that leaves the path open for more conflict in the future.