Anyone unsure about the ruthlessness of the enemy we face in Afghanistan and Pakistan should read this piece about a young boy in Pakistan: ‘I Agreed to Become a Suicide Bomber’.
It is hard to believe that the majority of the American people cannot support a war to ensure that Afghanistan and Pakistan never again become bases for the people who plotted and executed 9/11.
Each life lost in Afghanistan is tragic – but to put things into historical perspective, the United States lost more soldiers retaking the small Aleutian island of Attu from the Japanese in World War II – a battle most people have never heard of. Have Western societies become so casualty sensitive that they will buckle at the least resistance and lose patience as years pass?
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