My media colleagues are fervently publishing lists of anti-war vigils being held around town.
Where are the pro-war vigils? Or, if that term is too hawkish for you, the pro-troops vigils.
I'm no warmonger. I pray, as fervently as anyone, that we would all just grow up and learn to settle our differences without blowing stuff up.
But when megalomaniacal dictators slaughter their own citizens in the hundreds of thousands, we must take action.
It would have been nice if, when confronted about his atrocities by the United Nations, Saddam Hussein had said, "Oh my goodness, I'm so terribly sorry. I'll step down now and let a peaceable person run the country."
As you may have noticed, this didn't happen.
On this discussion board, writer G. Glyn Shull Jr., under the pseudonym Christian Soldier, explains why our presence in Iraq is a good thing. He is now back in the states, but at the time he wrote that post, he was stationed in Iraq.
I agree with Glyn that we need to remain in Iraq to help stabilize that country and build a strong ally. If we pull out, as some would have us do, we'll just give people in that part of the world one more reason to bash Americans: "they don't follow through on their promises."
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