AHA! Just as I thought

Aha! Just as I thought. We're still trying to win two wars on the cheap. Iraq is still shaky so we can't pull our troops out yet. Meanwhile the Afghan war, which if you will remember, we've been in since 2001, and where the real threat came from, we're still trying to fight with fewer than we had in Iraq. So now with the "surge" attacking in the south, the insurgents are retaking in the north. It's a case of surge and re-surge. It'd be funny if it weren't so deadly serious. People are more worked up about providing health care to everyone in America then they are about our young people dying in a country many of our people don't give two hoots about. They should, but they don't. I guess if it's OK to fight these wars on the cheap and allow young Americans to die for lack of fighting a real war, by which I mean overwhelm the enemy completely, then why worry about people here in America not having proper health care. It makes perfect sense. It's completely illogical, but makes perfect sense. Want to know what would make perfect sense and be perfectly logical too? Provide health care for all Americans and either fight the war with all the troops and equipment that's needed or get out. Now I understand the reasoning of the fiscal conservatives. They hate having us in debt. But they want us to fight without everything we need. That costs a lot more in the long run, and they don't want to spend the money to make sure everyone has health care, but that costs more in the long run too. That sounds a lot like shortsighted thinking.