Thin Red Lines

Posted: January 25, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized

arcticspecter's avatarArctic Specter

There are lines.  Lines that are meant not to be crossed.  Every person has their own.  Some are purely personal.  Some are dictated by policy.  Lines, in certain cases, that are there for the protection of others, even others for which we have no real loyalties.  When we as a country signed the Geneva Convention, we agreed to a lot of lines. Lines such as, well… I dunno… using chemical weapons (much less on unarmed civilians).  We also drew that line when it came to allowing other countries to do such atrocities.  This line was drawn in the sand.  The sand in Iraq to be exact.

When President Bush decided to take his military to war as the Commander in Chief, he did so with the deepest regret.  He had an understanding of the lives he was putting in harms way, and the bloodshed that would follow.  When the intelligence…

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