"President Barack Obama met Monday evening with his national security team to finalize a plan to dispatch some 34,000 additional U.S. troops over the next year to what he's called 'a war of necessity' in Afghanistan," officials purportedly told the newswire.
link: Obama to deploy 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan, report says | Raw Story
We were in a little classroom building next to the parade ground at Ft. Dix, NJ. We were there to listen to a presentation by an Army chaplain. Just before we filed into the classroom we'd been on the parade ground for bayonet drill, shouting "kill! kill! kill!" while stabbing dummies made of straw.
The chaplain asked, "Why do we have an Army?"
A guy in the back of the room stood up and said, rather enthusiastically, "To kill people."
"Oh no," said the chaplain. "It's to keep the peace."
On the parade ground, nobody was yelling "Peace! Peace!"
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