An America Cramped by Defensiveness
02.02.2013 at 09:13am
An America Cramped by Defensiveness – A Washington Post Op-Ed by SWJ's editor Peter Munson.
… Since I returned home, a darkness has grown in me as both I and our nation have failed to live up to the sacrifices of these young men and women. I had no expectation of “victory” in Afghanistan or Iraq, whatever that would mean. Nor did I expect some epiphany of strategic insight or remorse from the nation’s brain trust.
I just found that I could not square the negativity, pettiness and paranoia in the discourse of our country’s elders with the nobility and dedication of the men and women I had seen and served with in Afghanistan…
