Before you read this blog…remember this is my blog.  THese are my views.  I believe they are biblically and morally solid…but I realize they are highly charged.  So don’t read on unless you realize this is my opinion. 

It saddens me to watch on 9/11 a congress and many in our republic, especially in the media disrepect men who have fought for our nation and served our nation in the interantional arena all of their lives…why? All becasue they believe the war in Iraq was be seen through to completion.

Somehow we have missed the connection that terrorist hate us as Americans…they believe we are a Christian nation…despite our distance from the God of Scriptures biblically and morally.  However, this is how the world of terror views us…we are infidels and need to be killed off the face of the earth.

I think we need Genreral’s like Petraus (sorry about he spelling)…he reminds me of tough leaders from our past that stayed the course in our nation.  He is like Grant in the Civil War and Abe Lincoln.  He is like Swartzkoff…like Mcarthur and others.  Perhaps we could debate if he will go down in history like these men…but there are similarities.  He is facing the enemy dead on…he tells it as it is…he stands to take this to victory…even at odds with Congress….I like this guy!!! 

All of us want out…no one wants war.  THe Bible tells us their is a time for war and peace.  I like peace too…but will no war spell peace?  I don’t think so.  I believe leaving now will only bring more terror to the world, even to our own soil.  So I ask can we afford to surrender?  Can we afford to loose?  Can we afford to not stay the course?  This is not about who is right or wrong about the war or its origins…it is not about being a republican or democrat…this is about doing the right thing.  Will some politicians please stand up and declare a victory cry and get behind this war.  Will someone dare to say the will of the people is peace but the only way we can do that is to present a peace plan which means bringing this war to a proper finish.  We have only one option…VICTORY.

I pray we see victory, not retreat, surrender and failure.