We are so precious. So how could we have gotten to the point of occupation in the name of liberation? For eight years I have been shuddering, pained by the loss of life, rush to war, lingering in war, a ‘renewed’ focus on the war and now this. Continued casualties in the name of national security Continents away. Increasing troops by thirty thousand? How did ‘they’ arrive at this number? And then be so convinced, that’s all they’ll need, only eighteen months and then home as if on a business trip. Hmmmm, makes one question. A speech at West Point, to make a military, might point? Cadets=volunteers who carry the weight of these decisions heavily on their shoulders. Enlisted under what pressure? No conscription