Actually, too many Americans have lost their stomach for war. There are ten kids and young people in South Los Angeles killed in a single weekend with little outrage, but the loss of one soldier a day in Iraq brings on such a furor that we may have won the war, but yet we may well lose the peace.

We are no longer willing to make the necessary sacrifices that are necessary to win a war and stay winners.

The same people who whine and cry over the loss of each soldier (and don't think that I want to see a single one of our men or women die), are the same people who apologized to Japan because we dropped two atomic bombs on them. Sure, at that time, when I was a part of WWII, my life and thousands of other young men my age were at risk, and they estimated that we'd suffer 500,000 casualties in the upcoming invasion of Japan, but yet these bleeding hearts now say WE were wrong to save OUR lives, instead of killing around 200,000 Japanese in order to stop the war immediately.

Well, war does take lives. And, to win the peace, it also often takes lives. However, more lives are lost to gang warfare in this country than in the Iraqi war, and more young lives are lost daily on the freeways than we're losing there as well. They're willing to accept that, right?

We're doing a good and necessary job in Iraq. It's not over yet, believe me.

Our problem in the U.S. is that we've eliminated the draft and national service; the younger generation does not believe that freedom may require some sacrifices. Too many Americans would rather be slaves, like in Cuba, than stand up and fight, to bear arms for freedom. We've grown soft, too soft. You can see it every day, just look at the 20 year olds with four inches of flab hanging over their belts!

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