This is another great post on Ryan Call's blogspot. I had to post it here too. It is as follows:
My Uncle Craig wrote this outstanding article in our hometown newspaper. Enjoy. As American casualties mount in Iraq and Aghanistan, and popular support for the President's war against terrorism fades, I am struck by a single, seemingly inescapable conclusion. If we had television in 1943, and the news media had been allowed to film, in color, the unspeakable horror of the assault on Tarawa, where 1,000 Marines and Navy medical personnel were killed in just three days of brutal fighting, and had shown it to the American public 24 hours a day, I don't believe there would have been a Normandy invasion in 1944, or assaults on Iwo Jima and Okinawa in 1945. Having seen the true brutal nature of war, our basic humanity would have demanded that we negotiate peace with Hitler and Hirohito. Of course, that would have allowed most of Europe and all of China, Indonesia, Burma, and the Philippines to remain clenched in the iron grip of the worst despots known to mankind. What would the world look like today had that happened? World War III, popularly known as The Cold War, saw America and the free world defeat communism. I'm convinced the tyrants of history's dustbin have now been replaced by radical Islamic fascism, and we are now engaged in World War IV against that new evil. I know American soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen have the determination and dedication to win World War IV. I'm just not so sure the American public does.