Getting to the nuts and bolts

An interesting day today. Today, we started learning some specific systems that we will be using over there. For a change, we had an instructor that taught rather than simply read Power Point slides—it makes a big difference.
Apparently, the Army is going to start cracking down on blog sites. Here is an article that deals with the issue: Blog article. Like I’ve said before, I’m going to keep this blog intentionally vague for security reasons. Any good war stories I may have, I will save for when I get home (that will give me plenty of time to embellish them). Of course, my job is going to be very boring and very far from any action, so I may need many months to come up with some good stories.

I have had many questions about the war from both family and friends. In short, I fully support the President and his decisions. We are over there for the right reason. I truly believe that the president is thinking in the long term and the world will be better off years from now. Unfortunately, it seems that many politicians in our country think in micro terms instead of macro terms. I guess that is partly understandable—most politicians serve either 2 year of 6 year terms. It takes intestinal fortitude to think beyond the next election. I believe that the president is thinking in the long term (not unlike Teddy Roosevelt) and one day the world will be a better place. Propping up pro U.S. dictators may work in the short term, but oppressive regimes only breeds resentment and despair—which ultimately leads to terrorism.