The biggest problem now is that many of these soldiers don't want the war to end. They like it. This is their job and they love their job and they're proud of the job they do and they just want to keep on doing their job. For the war to end is to basically tell them: "As of now, you are laid off but good luck on your future endeavors."

After all that--the firefights, the bombs, the RPGs, the killing, the dying, the bleeding, the crying, the twisted wreckage, the smoke, the pleading, after watching good buddies die, after losing a limb--they are told, go home and forget about it. And thanks for everything. We'll call you if there's another war.

That's a war set up for failure. You have to have soldiers who are motivated to want to get the job done and go home. Instead we are creating an army that is more motivated to keep the war going because it's their life and existence now. It's all they have. Once it's over, they have nothing, they are unemployed.

I cringe everytime the media quote some marine in Iraq saying, "I love this job!" The media put it forth as something noble and so semper fi. They don't know or care that this guy will be a basket case once he comes home.