Profoundly Saddened

The article I read this morning is profoundly saddening. War is never glamorous, only real, hellish, deadly, and agonizing for those whose sons, daughters, dads, mom, or other family members are deep in the seemingly unending conflict.

The Afghan conflict generates barely a whisper on the U.S. presidential campaign trail. It’s not a hot topic at the office water cooler or in the halls of Congress — even though more than 80,000 American troops are still fighting here and dying at a rate of one a day.(Yahoo News, World Events)

Do our troops know we (read: Godly Believers) are praying for them? Do they know we (read: U. S. Government) are working with all of our might to extract them from this conflict? Do those who are responsible for troop deployment (read: Military leaders from the Commander-in-Chief to the last chef in the chow line) consume every waking hour with providing protection, support, arms, shelter and provisions sufficient to the task?

Not since the Korean War of the early 1950s — a much shorter but more intense fight — has an armed conflict involving America’s sons and daughters captured so little public attention. “We’re bored with it,” said Matthew Farwell, who served in the U.S. Army for five years including 16 months in eastern Afghanistan, where he sometimes received letters from grade school students addressed to the brave Marines in Iraq — the wrong war. “We all laugh about how no one really cares,” he said. “All the ‘support the troops’ stuff is bumper sticker deep.” (IBID)

Really? Really? God forbid we should fail to care, fail to pray, fail to work toward resolution – by whatever means possible. Those men and women on the battlefield are America’s finest souls. They deserve our committed attention, our earnest prayers, our ceaseless work to end hostility.

If what Matthew Farwell says is true – weep America! Weep!