Hope you all have the day off and enjoy the start of summer!
Let me put this in terms you can understand:Danny Sjursen, a retired Army major, Iraq veteran and regular contributor to Truthdig, laments in a Los Angeles Times editorial that we are engaged "in a series of forever wars that continue to claim new lives" and "we're not winning any of them." Despite the "continuing wars in the Middle East," Americans are no safer now than on 9/11, he writes. His essay's title says it all:
The best way America can honor its fallen soldiers is to create fewer of them
The beach didn't work out today. There was a fog of cold mist coming off the ocean. Away from the beach, it was warm and sunny.Beach and barbecue yesterday, beach today.
I was specifically referencing these statements, not the concept of Memorial Day:"Debbie Downer," eh?
we are engaged "in a series of forever wars that continue to claim new lives" and "we're not winning any of them." Americans are no safer now than on 9/11.