About 3,400 Oklahoma National Guardsmen are about to leave for training and a deployment to Afghanistan

A huge salute, of course! I always wonder, though, isn't there a better way than to keep throwing ourselves into this? I am no military scholar or even a student of such, but I'm so reminded of 'Nam, in that I support our efforts but our means don't seem to be as oriented toward victory (I don't know what better to call it), nor toward putting an emphasis on depleting them but preserving us, on the ground.

Website: Oklahoma National Guard