What has happened to us?

An American shoots someone (supposedly a non-combatant) in a declared combat zone in the heat of battle. A terrible loss of life and I wish it could be avoided. But the uproar about the woman (Hassan) being killed by the terrorists pales in comparison. We are so consumned with policing our selves that others just walk overs us as they please and about all we do is say "shucks, not again."

By God, it is war, our young boys sent in harms way to eliminate the terrorist threat should left to fight in order to accomplish the goal we as a Nation set and to protect their life so that they can come home when it is all over. This is a guerilla/Insurgent war where the combatants look just like the general populace. Remeber Vietnam and the children who killed our troops? Who really knows who the enemy is in this battle zone. Trust our boys to do their best based on the situation at the moment they are engaged.

The next time some young soldier faces a occupied room or booby-trapped body and hesitates before he acts and then dies because a camera is trained on him or some reporter is there hunting for his next pulitzer, or he thinks of what they did to this soldier, we have no one to blame but ourselves. All for our gluttonous desire war footage and news.

Let our troops fight ... fight as we have equipped them and trained them too. If we don't want them to fight then we need to stick our tails between our legs and bring them home. But DON'T handcuff them with a tag-along media and arm chair generals safely in their homes back in the U.S. If you can do better, then get your fat duff, get over there and do the job the way you think it should be done .. a handslap just before he blows you away.

Where is the out cry for all these killings (beheadings or execution) of innocent people. Where is the outrage from the world? I guess the UN has more important things to consider like how to divide up the Iraq oil money. Why don't the so called "real people of Islam" come and stop the Insurgents and allow Iraq to become either a peaceful democratic or religious society? Why doesn't Al Jazeera refuse to show these video's because "they give Islam a bad name in the eyes of the rest of the world?"