There is a diary here, on the recommend list in which the diarist has called our troops murderers.
I cannot and WILL NOT let that stand without a response.
To equate our troops, doing their sworn duty, to murderers is really beyond the pale.
I would like to counterpoint that with a diary listing all the good our troops do so please look below the fold.
In response to the worsening famine, the United States decided to assist the relief efforts by airlifting food from nearby Kenya to remote airfields in the interior of Somalia for distribution, thus bypassing congested ports and reducing the need to send out easily looted convoys. For this purpose, the United States launched Operation PROVIDE RELIEF on 15 August 1992
http://www.history.army.mil/...
http://www.centcom.mil/...
With President Bush preparing to visit Pakistan, U.S. troops who have provided humanitarian aid in the aftermath of the October 2005 earthquake are planning to depart the country by March 31.
http://florence.usconsulate.gov/...
NATO formally has ended its 90-day humanitarian mission in Pakistan, which provided emergency personnel and equipment after the South Asia earthquake of October 2005, NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer announced February 1.
"Today, the NATO mission to help the people of Pakistan, after last October’s terrible earthquake, has come to an end," de Hoop Scheffer said. "Our personnel have left the affected zone around Bagh, on schedule."
The magnitiude-7.6 earthquake stuck October 8, 2005, and killed more than 70,000 people. At the request of the Pakistan government, NATO opened an air bridge to Pakistan to deliver emergency supplies from Germany and Turkey. The military alliance also deployed about 1,000 personnel, including medical teams, helicopter crews and engineers. (See related article.)
Since the NATO humanitarian mission began, "over 160 flights from Europe have brought almost 3,500 tons of relief supplies, including tents, blankets and stoves, to Pakistan," de Hoop Scheffer said. "NATO helicopters lifted over 1,700 tons of relief in-country, and moved over 7,600 people. NATO medical units treated more than 8,000 patients. NATO engineers have cleared roads, and built schools and shelters
http://florence.usconsulate.gov/...
The U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) has donated $11 million worth of hospital equipment to Indonesia to set up a full-scale military hospital that will increase the disaster relief capability of the Indonesian military following the December 2004 tsunami, the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta announced in a January 20 press release.
http://florence.usconsulate.gov/...
The list goes on and on.
And, as many of you know, on a personal note I lost my nephew in Fallujah Iraq in 2003.
He died doing what he was ordered to do and with the belief that he was defending his country and his family.
I appreciate all that our troops sacrifice, in time with their families, in going to foreign countries, missing the birth of their babies etc etc.
In defending our country, you provide the very safety that all of us in the United States sometimes, myself included, enjoy without a second thought.
So I would just like to say thank you to all our troops regardless of your political affiliation.
You men and women step up and do what a lot of us are unable or unwilling to do.
YOU ARE THE BEST THIS COUNTRY HAS TO OFFER!
UPDATE: Many have asked which diary I am referring to.
It is http://www.dailykos.com/...