Or we can decide that it's time to leave and go home. And we've got to be clear in our minds about the consequences of either. These are the weasel words that give politicians wiggle room to suck a country into war in stages. The White House is making life and death decisions by taking public opinion polls. But there's no wiggle room for soldiers in combat.
American pilots have a dangerous job over there.
Yet, even as we pray for them, we as American citizens have our own job to do. Now is not the time to wrap ourselves in a flag and say there's nothing to talk about. It's not the time to say that debate means we're weakening American forces, or that debate is unpatriotic. We've seen what happens when our leaders are too frightened or incompetent to think things out or when they don't have the courage to back up their repeated threats over the years, as Yugoslavian boss Slobodan Milosevic learned about Bill Clinton. Milosevic is a communist monster who is killing innocent people.