War Games

I read a comment by Wordsmith over at Skypuppy's site which is worth passing on:

Even if things do completely collapse, it will not change my mind about Iraq. Hindsight blinds people into making coulda, shoulda, woulda, arguments. Sometimes, you can do what is the right thing, and the outcome can still turn out bad. Such is the mercurial nature of life, with all its unpredictable twists and turns.
Blaming Bush for everything that has gone wrong in the world is just misguided; as misguided as it would be to give him all the credit if things go right (sometimes things go right, in spite of making bad decisions, too).

Beautifully put. We are in the midst of a worlwide struggle - call it World War III and you'll get no argument here. The point is - we need to engage the enemy. We need to be in their backyard. We need to be in their face. We need to be damaging their ability to attack us.

Sitting at home and hoping for the best will only precipitate another 9/11.

We now know that when Radical Islam threatens verbally, it is not a hollow threat - and the threat is followed up with an act of war. And there is still a whole lot of threatening going on out there. As long as there are Islamic Nut-Jobs talking Jihad - we are at war.

I don't like it. I don't want to think about it. I don't like our options.

But lying in bed with the covers pulled up over our heads is the recipe for another disaster.

Invading Iraq was the right move. We will fight this war, and Iraq is as good a place as any.