This is War

With the recent so called "martydom" attack at Mosul the mainstream media in this country have been playing up the casualty count like it was Viet Nam all over again. My friends, this is war. Men will die. We must accept the inevitable consequences of waging war. There is no getting around the ugly truth of combat, some of our boys will not be coming home alive.

We lost more civilians since 9/11 than we have lost military personnel and we are in Iraq and Afghanistan and soon other places because of this callous and unforgivable plot. We are avenging New York, Washington and Pennsylvania in far away places like Baghdad, Fallujah and Kabul and where we stop has yet to be determined. Let us not forget the ruthless nature of our enemy and for them it is all or nothing.

Let us go forth in steely determination and bring down hellfire upon those who wish us harm until they beg for mercy or beg to die. Apparently, not enough of them have been killed to change their minds on the ferocity of the American Fighting Machine. Let us ponder Shakespeare in these dark times as we prepare for battle: "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"