peace

The world stands, as always, in the shadow of war. Even now, this December, as U.S. troops disengage from their war-making roll in Iraq, American military private contractors will continue a presence in the Iraqi nation. As we continue to engage Taliban, Al Qaeda and other potential enemy terrorists in Afghanistan, the threat of war looms across the Afghanistan borders with nuclear-armed Pakistan on one side and potentially nuclear-armed Iran on the other.

We are a nation at war. In spite of the fact we Americans think of ourselves as peace-loving people, we seem to be at war more than we are at peace.

We have one war going in Iraq from which we are supposedly trying to extricate ourselves. We have another war in Afghanistan and there we're trying to figure out how we might free ourselves. And now, we're opening up another front in Libya.