re: The second choice.
Remember, although we are being told by the media that the American soldiers are dying in futility, their deaths are the price America is paying for trying not to harm the innocent, and not simply obliterating our opposition.
This war could have been fought at fifty thousand feet by men and women sipping coffee who would be home with their families in a week. It would have been so easy.
Americans have made the right moral choice, and the troops and their families are paying a heavy price for this. There is more than one way to be a hero.
So many people don't understand this.