Senator Joe Lieberman on March 22,
2007 made this insightful comment. "Our military
is fully engaged in this war, but most of the rest of
America is not. Five years after
September 11, very little has been asked of the American
people. Instead of mobilizing as a nation, the burden of
this war has fallen disproportionately on the few... on
our soldiers, our brave men and women in uniform.
They are the ones who have put their lives on the line
so that freedom may prevail. In this chamber, and across
our land, there have been great differences of opinion
about how we should pursue the war in Iraq, but there has
been great unity of opinion that our troops there should
be honored. We must support them.
"Larry Diamond of Stanford’s
Hoover Institution said, “America
is not at war. The US Army is at war. The rest of us
are just watching,
or just ignoring, while the whole fight is carried on by
150,000 soldiers and their families.” |