I figure if I\ufffdm going to serve my country, I\ufffdll do it on top of the ugliest plane ever to grace the sky, the 30mm rotary cannon with wings, the A-10 Warthog

Like you'd get your choice of assignment if you joined.

Yeah, but let me dream a little dream... ^_^

We\ufffdll posture and pose, and in the end, we\ufffdll come out of it, thousands of U.S. soldiers dead, and not much will have changed

Could be, but my biggest fear is that this will utimately escalate into an "Islam vs West"

...not much will have changed.

I guess what I should have been clearer about is not that we might lose that which we have now, but rather that the seeds for the next cycle of violence will be sown in our current war, unless we wise up to our problems.

As I was explaining to my roommate, this is not about the impact that our actions today will have three to five years down the road, but three hundred to five hundred years down the road.

"No greater love has a man than he who would give up his own life so that those that he will never meet shall not only have life, but freedom as well." - Me.