As I said in my Veterans day Blog, I left a lot out.
I deleted about a page of stuff that I wanted to say, but felt it didn’t pay tribute to the people it was about.
To be honest, I wasn’t happy with that whole writing effort at all and should have deleted more.
What I mean is, I had an ideal as to what I wanted to talk about, but never really got around to it I feel.
That being the current military personal who are fighting for our freedom even as we speak.
The freedom they provide, and the respect they deserve.

That is all in the past now though so lets talk about the stuff I left out, yea lets take a look at that.

I am, as most of you all know, a little more patriotic then some.
I understand that we as a people need people to help … no more like to tell us, what we need to do sometimes.
I understand that freedom has a cost.
I also understand that we truly are the most free people in the world.
That being said …
I, on the flip side of the coin, also understand that many people think that the Government has to much control, and I agree.
I understand that the cost of freedom has of late been very costly.
Then also that if we are so free, why can’t we do what we want when and how ever we want?
Not being able to do as we wish when we want makes many people think that we are not in fact free at all.
O how wrong my flock or murderers who believe that you truly are!

A lot of you do say though things like get our children home and out of that dessert.
Then some of you say that we need to be over there helping.
Then some others of you say things like me that are some amalgamation (Dear God I not only used that word correctly but also spelled it right on the first try!) of the two.
That being that we should be helpful but enough is enough.
We also have the group that says drop a BIG bomb in the desert already, build a trench to the ocean and open up the worlds larges Sea Park.
OK, I am the only one who might think the last part …

The point is, do we need to be over there?
I don’t think so.
Let me point out why though.
We are searching for a group of people by going door to door, this never works on TV in a small area, so why on earth would it work in a small country?
Not everyone over there is a member of this resistance so we have to treat everyone in good faith, that is until they pull that proverbial dagger out and then try and shove it in our backs.
Yes, some of them do wish us to be over there, but I think it is safe to say from all of the deaths of our troops that some of them don’t either.

So, I have an ideal.
It isn’t all politically correct, or even right in most people eyes, but I think it might work anyway.
We go and figure out where the best sand is.
You know the all around best section to try and live in/on with water and only the finest of caves.
We build a small city with buildings, wells, even irrigation systems so they can grow crops.
We open schools factories and then do an all call to the people of the land saying come to this place to live.
Drop off a bunch of livestock and then build a wall.
This will give all of the ‘good’ people a place to thrive and an escape from the terrorists.
We will have to implement some type of secret handshake but that can be figured out during construction.
Just make sure it isn’t the left hand …

I am joking of course, well actually no, in a lot of ways this would help the people and save us a lot of money in the long run, but lets think about the facts.
We, as Americans are getting tired of hearing from some random person knocking on our door that our child, spouse or parent will never get the chance to see us again.
We are getting tired of government leaders who worry more about a re-election vote and there own children’s lives then the people they send to war, making our decisions for us.
Sure, they have an inside scoop, lets put there child over there though and see how quickly they might vote differently.
(I also say, on a side note mind you, that we need to institute a mandatory military term for everyone.
It will teach discipline, respect and a bunch of other things too.
Plus, it will get the good old Wig Heads a chance to know fear as there own children are put in danger.)
These Wig Heads are making all of the decisions on what is best for them and there own, and not so much thinking about us anymore.

We are fighting in a war that was started because we stuck or noses in other peoples business.
We continue in this war because … I don’t know the real reason other then I guess so we can say we won?
Enough is enough!
Guess what, we can not win!
These people fight for a religious cause.
We are trying to convince zealots that they are wrong.
Yea, hasn’t worked so far I am sure if we keep fighting it might sink in …
What would happen if people came to America and told us that Christianity was wrong and started attacking us because we had different believes?
Would we not fight back as well?
Dear God we would fight back and then, well, I guess we would go to there country and attack them as well … is that what this is about then?
Separation of _____ and _____?

I joked about building a city for them, I do think it would be a wonderful thing but as we found out only a few generations ago in Africa that this ideal isn’t necessarily the best.
What I do think we need to do is to back off, bring our troops home and close the borders for a time.
All of these other countries have said that they support us but they have stopped fighting because the looses are just to great.
We have bankrupted our own country funding this conflict.
We have tortured and lost so many of our countries children’s souls that the pain will be felt for decades!
So, enough is enough already.
Pull out and take care of our own.
This country is broken and in need of aid.
I know that other countries need our help, but don’t we need it now too?
Don’t even give me that different founds and different budgets stuff.
Pull from the foreign aid funds and help our own already.

We keep trying to tell others how to live, how to help others and to do what is right.
We don’t do it ourselves though?
We keep judging these other people by a standard we ourselves have not meet?
Doesn’t the Bible say something about not judging others?
“Judge not least ye be judged thy self”

People, we need to take care of ourselves first and we need to do it soon!
Who are we to try and fix others when we are in fact so broken?
Does this ring a bell anyone?
Matthew 7:3-5
"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

That’s it for now, and once again I kept a lot back in an attempt to stay civil and polite.
The real question is, why do I keep holding back?