PrintNovember 17, 2004
Where do we get them?
Their faces are becoming more familiar to us now. Young men, grown old beyond their years, their faces framed in Kevlar helmets and desert pattern camouflage covers, appear in magazines and newspapers routinely now. Running through rubble and streets choked with discarded, blackened cars and piles of rocks which used to be walls of buildings, they are our sons, husbands, fathers and brothers.
Raw footage of video clips showing them pouring automatic weapons fire into distant buildings and whooping it up when a target is hit by their wire—guided munitions creeps into websites and news outlets everywhere. They prove all of the pundits and strategists dead ass wrong with every round they fire and every street and city block they take back from the terrorists and their enablers.
Cable news channels schedule early morning interviews with many of them who have been wounded and are in various hospitals recuperating. Here in these sanitized settings, their youth...(Read Full Article)
