Reactions to 30,000 New Troops

Want to read how people are feeling about the President's call for 30,000 new troops to Afghanistan? I don't have a good feeling about this. What this means is that between Iraq and Afghanistan we will have close to 200,000 of our young men and women fighting in a war that is longer than World War II. This does not even touch the families, the wounded, those that have to go back into combat three, four, five times.

You might check into Jim Wallis' commentary on this added deployment found in Sojourners.

There is no easy way to disengage from the morass of this war. But somehow we must find a way home and finding it together would certainly be the best for all concerned.