War is neither a good thing, nor waging an easy decision for any leader to make. Previous wars were waged between two or more factions that were planning to win at all costs. Our presidents were willing to use the necessary weapons to insure success. The U.S. has restored and aided most of the countries that we defeated and those countries have become quite prosperous since. The U.S. wrote off many war debts and continued to rebuild the lands of our defeated foes.

In those early wars, the citizens were not clamoring for withdrawal, not asking for all the information and plans for action, not filming each and every excursion by our troops, not broadcasting to our enemies what the day’s plans are going to be.

However, now we have an enemy that sacrifices its women, children and civilians. They destroy more of their people, buildings, and land than the U.S. forces. They have better information about our plans (thanks to CNN and politicians that want to control the U.S.) than our servicemen and women who will carry out the actions.

Politicians do not know how to win a war, only how to fill their own pockets by protecting their investments in foreign lands and by bashing an administration that is no better or worse than the last one.

The atomic bomb ended our last successful war. Heaven forbid that it would come to that extreme again.

Let’s stop telling them what we are going to do and when.

Bill DuBois, Poland