Ghost of a flea

My heart aches for the losses in London, but those horrible losses have only strengthened my resolve to help cut out this cancer.

If I could take the average citizen along with us on a combat patrol I have no doubt they would feel the same way. But I can�t. All I can do is hope that America will continue to support this mission and let us win this war. Is it costly? Very. Is it painful? Even more so. But in the end it comes down to this � in the entire history of the human race, from the dark avenues of prehistory up to this modern �enlightened� age, there are precious few instances where bowing to an enemy seeking your annihilation did anything but lead to a much uglier world. And I for one don�t plan on letting that come to pass.

"Other evils there are that may come; for Sauron is himself but a servant or emissary. Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule."