Via Fox News:
Over the past week, the American people have been told that our president’s actions in Iraq towards Iran were pushing us into another war in the Middle East.
The House of Representatives even approved a largely symbolic measure Thursday night to limit the president’s authority as commander-in-chief.
Hashtags for “World War III” and “draft” started trending online as millennials worried about conscription, prompting the New York Times to write an article on the subject.
Time magazine even published a guide to help parents ease their children’s fears regarding the situation.
Somewhere in the hysteria are lessons for both sides, lessons memorialized over two-thousand years ago during the Warring States period in ancient China.
I found out about the death of Iranian commander Gen. Qaseem Soleimani along with the rest of the world. My reaction was personal. I didn’t celebrate. I didn’t cheer. I didn’t gloat. Instead, I remembered.
I remembered driving the road where he was killed. I remembered the time I spent at the recently besieged U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. And, I remembered the friends I lost to IEDs, particularly to the Explosively Formed Penetrators, or EFPs.
I remembered that Gen. Soleimani led the effort that resulted in the deaths of my friends.