That comment took on a life of its own, didn’t it. I thought it captured the zeitgeist perfectly.

I hate what’s happening to our soldiers in Iraq. They’re fighting the kind of war they weren’t trained to fight and they’re not getting the kind of support from us they need.

You see the lack of commitment I mention when you have all these folks flip-flopping about the war. Nearly every Democratic presidential candidate supported the war when it started and now, because it’s politically expedient, almost none of them do. That’s childish. You make a commitment, you stick with it until its over. It’s not over in that country, yet, but all these mamby-pambies who gave up on commitment can’t keep their mouths shut and bear down.

(I feel that way on Israel, too. The world created the state of Israel post-WWII. The world better stick up for what it created! Yet you have all these Europeans whose collective national memory can’t remember back sixty years ago to what they wrought who now wish Israel would just go away. Wow. It’s like having a baby and then wishing the child never existed.)

I think of the way Americans approached WWII and our attitudes today just pale. Can you imagine the hew and cry if the government today asked people to ration?

So much for commitment.

It amazes me we have this war in Iraq (and Afghanistan still, too), yet people act is if nothing is going on. In a way, it’s amazing that we can be in a war that changes almost nothing of what we do back home, but perhaps that’s a bad thing. We can gripe and moan about it all within the untouched comfort of our uninterrupted lives.

When comfort is the only thing we’re committed to, then America no longer exists. And neither does the Church there.

At least for a while, I’ve resolved not to blog “anything among you except Christ, and Him crucified.”

I think I’ll see other “issues” more clearly if I can see Him more clearly.

Dan, will you sign my commitment papers?

- Roto-Tiller Guy