Why Do People Feel Depressed About the War on Terror?

Our Friday night speaker at the AFRW meeting was Colonel Hopper Smith. Hopper was a former Representative of Oklahoma until he resigned when he was deployed to Afghanistan. His topic was the Iraq war and needless to say he was a excellent and funny speaker. I was particularly taken on his explanation of why everyone seems to be feeling despondent and depressed about the war.

Reason for the way we are feeling now. The effects of a terrorist's actions and why they do what they do.

Shock anger and hatred towards the terrorists. These is our feelings when we are first attacked.

Demand for justice against those terrorists Everyone is all joined together to go get them. We sing "God Bless American" on the Capital steps.

Dissatisfaction with the government, with its inability to dispense justice. War means death and destruction. No matter how many plans you have they are not always going to work. Especially when you try to run a political correct war. We need to fight, fight nasty, and get "mad-dog mean".

Feelings of despondence and despair with the current government.Yeah, yeah we know, Bush lie, people died. Why did he drag us into this war? Just bitch and complain. It doesn't matter that the majority of Americans haven't had to change their lifestyle at all. The only ones making sacrifices are our soldiers and their families. Americans are so spoiled and selfish that we no longer have the will or backbone to stand up to what is right.

Desire for change in the government. To restore what we think is justice and order. Just declare that the war is lost, use your power to defund the war and look for any excuse to bug out. (Remind you of any one?) Who cares that that the Iraqi government would collapse and terrorists would control the country. The Democrats said that Bush was putting us through another Vietnam. Too bad they are repeating the same mistakes they made in Vietnam. The Vietnamese never beat us in battle. All they had to do was out last the American will to fight. That is exactly what happened. The American people lost the will to fight. They lost the will to support the military action. We lost and the Democrats are bound and determined that we do so again.