http://rooyj.edublogs.org/2008/04/16/the-courtesy-of-war/ It's time to think for ourselves... Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:30:02 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://rooyj.edublogs.org/2008/04/16/the-courtesy-of-war/comment-page-1/#comment-14 whitepe Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:05:39 +0000 http://rooyj.edublogs.org/2008/04/16/the-courtesy-of-war/#comment-14 So are you suggesting books for bombs? Basically instead of running and gunning our way through Iraq and Afghanistan we should actually acting more like a construction crew. I like that idea, but I do not think it (the war in Iraq and Afghanistan) has reached a point at which our army can start doing those types of things. What we need to do is get the Iraq army in some type of workable unites so they can do the security while our good old boys build those schools and roads. I often times wonder if we will ever get the point in which we will be able to actually build something there without someone there trying to knock it down. I do identify with the troops though. I know if I was in Iraq right now, every time I was in a car outside the base, I would drive that thing like there was no tomorrow and the reality is, if I do not drive that car like that it just means it is more likely that there will be no tomorrow. Watching out for everything at all times would be very exhausting and mistakes are bound to happen, how are we going to win this war if mistakes cost so much? So are you suggesting books for bombs? Basically instead of running and gunning our way through Iraq and Afghanistan we should actually acting more like a construction crew. I like that idea, but I do not think it (the war in Iraq and Afghanistan) has reached a point at which our army can start doing those types of things. What we need to do is get the Iraq army in some type of workable unites so they can do the security while our good old boys build those schools and roads. I often times wonder if we will ever get the point in which we will be able to actually build something there without someone there trying to knock it down.
I do identify with the troops though. I know if I was in Iraq right now, every time I was in a car outside the base, I would drive that thing like there was no tomorrow and the reality is, if I do not drive that car like that it just means it is more likely that there will be no tomorrow. Watching out for everything at all times would be very exhausting and mistakes are bound to happen, how are we going to win this war if mistakes cost so much?

]]> http://rooyj.edublogs.org/2008/04/16/the-courtesy-of-war/comment-page-1/#comment-13 roodme Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:58:26 +0000 http://rooyj.edublogs.org/2008/04/16/the-courtesy-of-war/#comment-13 I agree, I would also be furious if I heard about my hometown being blown to smithereens by some other country who is supposedly here to help. I hope that would never happen here in US, but ya never know. I've been thinking about that same scene in Born on the 4th of July probably almost every day since we watched it, and I can't get over when they just left them there. It is unfortunate that we have been helping so many countries and different people for hundreds of years, and yet we still don't completely treat them like our own. I agree with you, if they just took a second to slow down things might improve, and the people we are trying to help might like us just a little bit more. I agree, I would also be furious if I heard about my hometown being blown to smithereens by some other country who is supposedly here to help. I hope that would never happen here in US, but ya never know. I’ve been thinking about that same scene in Born on the 4th of July probably almost every day since we watched it, and I can’t get over when they just left them there. It is unfortunate that we have been helping so many countries and different people for hundreds of years, and yet we still don’t completely treat them like our own.
I agree with you, if they just took a second to slow down things might improve, and the people we are trying to help might like us just a little bit more.

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