They Way We All Need to See It

This op-ed by seven US soldiers, just returned from 15 months in Iraq, is what we need to hear. Is this what Vietnam was like? Does it matter? Do the fools is Washington hear anything they don't want to hear?

"In short, we operate in a bewildering context of determined enemies and questionable allies, one where the balance of forces on the ground remains entirely unclear. (In the course of writing this article, this fact became all too clear: one of us, Staff Sergeant Murphy, an Army Ranger and reconnaissance team leader, was shot in the head during a “time-sensitive target acquisition mission” on Aug. 12; he is expected to survive and is being flown to a military hospital in the United States.) While we have the will and the resources to fight in this context, we are effectively hamstrung because realities on the ground require measures we will always refuse — namely, the widespread use of lethal and brutal force."

Thank you, Specialist Jayamaha, Sergeants Smith, Roebuck, Mora, and Sandmeier, and Staff Sergeants Gray and Murphy.