Quote of the day--on endless war

"A wife sitting at home waiting for a soldier to finish deployment, that's her focus every day. You want to tell people about it, then you realize they really aren't interested."  --Veda Olechny, wife of 1st Sgt. Patrick Olechny, at war in Afghanistan, on his fourth tour of combat duty.
The United States is now in the ninth year of the longest conflict in its history, fought by 150,000 troops on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq at a cost of more than $1 trillion. That is considerably more than the ultimate price of the much-debated Troubled Asset Relief Program, which bailed out automakers, banks and a handful of insurers.

Yet neither party has much incentive to discuss the fighting half a world away.


And that's tragic.


We have to end this Afghanistan war, folks.  We have to speak up.  


And we have to end our country's tendency for "endless war" and its ties to our military/industrial complex.


Butter, people, not guns.  Butter.


Let's end this insanity.  It's a disgrace to us, collectively and individually.  


We are better than this.


Or we ought to be.


Link to original post:  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-midterms-war-20101102,0,3854094.story