Agony

I don't think it's ever going to end, this agony of war over resources. Sometimes I really lose my hope. I know that there are good people out there. I know that there are a lot of good Americans. I know that some of the stubborn ignorance of my countrymen and women is because their souls are good and they don't want to believe we'd pursue a war over money. Our people don't believe that for American leaders, it's always about money in the end.

This picture makes me sick. This is an American soldier cradling a dying (dead?) Iraqi child after a car bomb earlier in Mosul, (225 miles outside of Baghdad) today. Imagine what you would do if you had to live like this - seeing this death and this hatred day in and day out. Losing your children to such hateful violence.

I don't see a way out. I wonder where it will end. Or if it will end.