This was a reply given to Chelsea Clinton by a soldier when she asked him what he feared most… well, it was a response given on some parody TV show that a coworker of mine told me about, so it’s not legit. It is, however, pretty damn funny… despite the obvious inaccuracy of where the fear should be coming from.

To me it seems that John McCain’s plan for Iraq is likely to frighten more soldiers than the plans of Obama or Hilary. McCain intends to send more troops to the Middle East to become a stronger presence there. He is not specific as too how many more troops will need to be sent, but it’s fair to assume that the number is rather substantial.

The two Democratic camps have similar thoughts on Iraq. Both intend to enact plans to get out of Iraq within a year or two of getting into office. Barack Obama’s website discussed a 16 month plan to be entirely out of Iraq. Hilary’s plan, from what I can understand, is very similar.

It is likely that the Democrats are listening to the thousands of people like me who see this war as our generation’s Vietnam. It’s simply unwinnable, especially since most of us agree that we don’t know what winning this war would even mean. Does winning mean that Iraq is a democracy? Doe sit mean that we kill all insurgents and restore the country to a peaceful one? Or does winning simply mean that we control Iraq, and thus, their oil?

No, I am not truing this into some “No Blood for Oil” piece, God knows we have enough of those. I am simply expressing the confusion that has come upon me since thinking about the comment about the soldier’s fears. A war with a definitive end seems to be much more desirable than a war with no end in sight, doesn’t it? Or is there something I am missing?