Not long ago, Myrrander wrote an article about the war. While I didn't agree with his position, there was part of his sentiment I agreed with, and I understood.

I don't comment much on blogs about deployments, about separation of military spouses from their families, because there's truly not much I can say. I hate to see the families going through the uncertainty of separation, of deployments stretching into infinity.

As to whether the war in Iraq was necessary, I truly, I honestly do not know. I know that Saddam was a brutal dictator, I knew that people suffered under his regime, but I also know enough of history to know that when a revolution of any sort occurs, the regime that rises to power is often as bad as, occasionally worse than, the regime that it has displaced. Again, I do not know if this is the case in Iraq, but I do know that we will in almost certainty leave that country with more questions than answers.

And when we leave, we will almost certainly leave for a war on another front, as we continue to wage war against an abstract, against a concept, rather than a tangible enemy. We cannot eradicate terrorism from the globe and simultaneously leave citizens with any liberties whatsoever. We fight ideological enemies with ideas, physical enemies with guns. We cannot fight ideological ideas with guns; in the whole history of humankind, that has never worked, and it is unlikely to work now.

I can't join the call of those who demand we bring them home now, in my opinion, they are as bad as the policymakers and the rulers who have our men and women there in the first place. I want to see them come home, of course, but I want to see it happen the RIGHT way, without leaving a country in shambles, in anarchaic disarray. And I cannot put the blame on the Bush Administration when so many of our legislators, on both the right AND left side of the spectrum, rubber stamped these actions until it became politically unpopular to do so. It's one thing to be a hawk or a dove, quite another to be a shapeshifter, becoming a hawk or dove based on the latest op/ed columns in the New York Times.

But we need to know that our soldiers are coming home. Too many children are growing up without parents, too many in this country live in uncertainty. Our soldiers have fought and sacrificed much for their country, they've done their job, and now it's time to start thinking about how, about when, we can bring them home.