How does the RNC spell VICTORY?
The word victory seems to have great significance to the RNC. It is held high over our heads and admired as a lofty goal that we must achieve at any cost. The admittedly rhetorical, and far from objective, question that popped into my head is “How do you claim victory for a war that should never have been?” What victory will balance out the grievous cost? The tens of thousands of innocents who have been killed or horribly wounded are paying dearly for events they had no part in. How can you win the hearts and minds of an entire generation of children in Iraq and Afghanistan who have seen their lives utterly destroyed with no just cause? How do we now dissuade them from allowing the bitterness of such losses turn them towards our real enemies? Prevent them from being recruited as the next wave of jihadists? Where is the justice & fairness in our response to 9/11? The tragic and terrible deaths from 911 numbered less than 3,000. By all conservative estimates these deaths have been avenge
