Its time for a gut check. A gut check doesn’t mean peering up your orifice to see if you have intestines; it is more metaphysical in meaning as I use it here. We’re seeing people killed from the US and Britain in number now. We’re also seeing prisoners being taken on both sides and visuals of dead people and downed helicopters.
This is the reality of war and why warriors never want to go to war. Human beings will be killed, maimed and captured. Usually the injuries are of such a frightful nature that the most hideous car crash you have ever seen will, by comparison, look like a scraped knee. That is the way that injuries occur in wars.
The gut check comes in for all of us. We are going to see the cost of war, like the waging of war, up close in our living rooms. It is an appalling, but necessary, price to realize our goal. So, confirm your resolve, recognize the price and step up.
If you can’t stomach it, you are not alone. Except we are here now and we have to deal with it. Troops on the ground deal with it every second of every day, while we can reach for the remote and turn it off. They can’t. Which is why they need our support.
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