Combat Hospital

This weekend's CNN "Combat Hospital" should be required watching in this country. Whatever your opinion is as to how to end this war, after watching this and assuming you feel at all, you must admit that one way or another this thing needs to end. If you have an ounce compassion you know that the salve that will heal Soldiers lives as time rolls on is the knowledge that their efforts resulted in something worthy of their sacrifice. Soldiers return to being citizens. And citizens return to being pragmatic. The orders that were followed or the mission of war in general will be acceptable if the outcome serves the greater good. The collective opinion of the country has been decided by the elections. And don't forget world opinion. Complacency is no longer tolerable. It's time to support the leaders in this country that come up with the fastest timetable for ceasing our involvement in this war. Don't worry, the fastest will be painfully slow. The image of cut and run cuts deep into the American psyche if not human psyche and will cause our leaders to plot this out to some imaginary point in the future. Regardless, we need to accept that this represents the greater good. After all, could it be any more painful than watching this steady stream casualties and broken lives.