More sacrifice in Iraq

Bush warns of more sacrifice in Iraq :

"'Our efforts in Iraq and the broader Middle East will require more time, more sacrifice and continued resolve,' said Bush, who has spent most of August on vacation at his 648-hectare ranch."

The death toll for Americans in Iraq has increased considerably. The death toll for Americans in the middle east over many years has been very high, so Cindy Sheehan's question is not an odd one for an American to ask:

"How many more are you willing to sacrifice before you say enough is enough?"

She should not be deemed to be difficult because she wants to know why so many Americans are losing their lives for what seems to be an ongoing mess and has been an ongoing mess for years. If people could see things changing or could see the point of all of this, then they would not ask so called difficult questions. You don't throw good money after bad, do you? You don't keep putting people into die if there is no clear image of how all this death is improving things. It's hard, I know it's hard. The middle east and its political make up is like liquid crystal and very difficult to understand. Using a western headset to make sense of something middle eastern is impossible. So we sit here hurting and baffled because we can just see not stop destruction and a country being reduced to rubble and so many soldiers just losing their lives and for what? One day it may all be better, but the Americans are paying a very high price .

In Beirut in 1983 a suicide truck broke through the barricades of the US marine base. 241 Americans were killed. So were 58 French people. During the 80s there were ongoing attacks on French and American embassies in Lebanon. When terrorists took the Kuwaiti airliner in 1984, again, Americans were killed. But it goes on through the 90s and now the new millennium, so you can understand why Cindy Sheehan asks how many. Ostensibly the middle east is still very unstable and what exactly western intervention is achieving is very unclear to us. We get news, we get spin, we get propaganda, but we don't get it at all. Maybe the leaders get it. Maybe the military gets it. We don't, so saying Americans have to sacrifice more when they don't understand really what this is all about, is a big ask, given they and the French are the two nations who have consistently lost lives trying to resolve issues in the middle east.