MEMORIAL DAY

Before the Iraq War is over the war in Afghanistan and the Central Asia region is just beginning, do Americans care?

From an article on CQ Politics covering Senator John Kerry's hearings in April with Afghanistan vets speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Exactly 38 years after he testified against the Vietnam War.

An excerpt from "Echoes Of Vietnam...", April 23 2009:
Boston University professor and a retired Army Col. Andrew Bacevich observed that the starkest difference between the hearing Thursday and the one in 1971 is public disengagement.

“When the young John Kerry spoke, many of his contemporaries had angrily turned against their generation’s war. Today, most of the contemporaries of those fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan have simply tuned out the Long War,” Bacevich said. “The predominant mood of the country is not one of anger or anxiety, but of dull acceptance.”



Where is the justice for the Americans that were sent to a war based on lies? Why aren't we as a country asking for someone to be held accountable for the dead and wounded American troops and Iraqi people?



Related
Faces Of The Fallen: US service members who died in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (Central Asia)
via The Washington Post
Winter Soldier On The Hill: War Vets Testify Before Congress
via Democracy Now
Rethink Afghanistan
Film: Body Of War on DVD
Iraq Vets Against War
Disabled Veterans Of America


- posted by LEE for MRE / US&THEM
Memorial Day May 25, 2009