No War With Iran
Two more soldiers from Guam killed this week , while fighting in Afghanistan. A Chamorro working as a private contractor was killed last month in Iraq. The total for the entire Micronesian region (Guam, CNMI, FSM, RMI and Palau) is now up to 28 killed in the total War on Terror. Scary statistics that should make even the most "patriotic" resident of the region think twice about out this war and our participation in it. Looking at this death toll, and all the media coverage about how young people in these islands are just dying and desperate to sign up and serve, I am reminded of one of the final lines from Michael Moores' film Fahrenheit 911: "I've always been amazed that the very people forced to live in the worst parts of town, go to the worst schools, and who have it the hardest are always the first to step up, to defend us. They serve so that we don't have to. They offer to give up their lives so that we can be free. It is remarkably their gift to us.