It's been a while since I mentioned this, but it seems that soldiers continue to die while attempting to install Democracy (version 2.0) in Iraq. The most recent count puts that number - confirmed by the Department of Defense - at two thousand three hundred eighty. Here's one way to think about that: There are thirty-two teams in the National Football League. Each team has a roster of sixty-five players, or two thousand eighty players. If you add in eight to ten coaches per team (coordinators, position coaches, etc.) then you start to approach this number. If the players and coaches of the National Football League disappeared, wouldn't everybody - okay, a whole lot of people be up in arms?
I went to a Peace March a couple of weeks ago. I wouldn't say that it was sparsely attended, but it didn't have the "Let's levitate the Pentagon" vibe of the sixties, nor did it have the righteousness of sheer multitudes. As Dave Mustaine of Megadeath so aptly put it in 1986, "Peace Sells, But Who's Buyin'?" The chorus says, "If there's a new way I'll be the first in line, But, it better work this time. Can you put a price on peace?" Twenty years ago.
Meanwhile back in this century, A Marine reservist returning home after eight months in
Iraq was told he couldn't board a plane to Minneapolis because his name appeared on a watch list as a possible terrorist. Instead of immediately meeting their families, other members of his unit waited on a bus for Staff Sgt. Daniel Brown. "We don't leave anybody behind," First Sgt. Drew Benson said. "We start together, and we finish together." Can you put a price on peace?
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