Reaction to a newscast

I hate anything that even catches the whiff of political perspiration and what is below reeks like a eighth grader coming out of gym class…

A few days ago, I was listening to a story on the radio that’s given me a lot to think about. The story I was listening to was just another one about how another town outside of Bagdad has been effected by the troop “surge.” We all know how those stories usually go, troops move in, the bad guys are there, the towns people leave. What I was particularly impressed with in this story though was an interview that was done with one on the soldier assigned to the post that had been set up in the town. It wasn’t even so much about the fact as to weather or not the soldier believed in what he was there fighter for or not. He knew that the people of the village had given up. In fact, from the sound of it, they didn’t even want the fight in the first place. I have to trust that no one in the village has shed a single tear over the fact that Saddam Hussein was forced from power in their country, but did they really want the United States to be the ones to fight for it? We’ve given the Iraqis no other option but now they either have to fight against the outside wall of insurgents or they have to just give up.

Why do people fight for freedom? It’s not because someone comes into your country and says that it’s time for change, people will only fight for something when their backs are against the wall. When someone else has put your back up against the wall, who are you going to fight against, the wall or the person who put you against it in the first place?

To listen to the story, use the following link and the part I reference above is about 5 minutes into the report, but it’s worth the wait:
http://www.npr.org/templates/dmg/popup.php?id=14761413&type=1&date=27-Sep-2007&au=1&pid=24325522&random=4625112025&guid=0000F158C86805561B7B507261626364&uaType=WM,RM&aaType=RM,WM&upf=Win32&topicName=News&subtopicName=Iraq&prgCode=ME&hubId=-1&thingId=14761434&ssid=&tableModifier=&mtype=WM