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I agree that it must help troop morale to know when they are going to get to come home, but I also agree that they do know when they are coming home (or at least have an idea). They don’t know if they will have to go back, but the never ending troop rotation deals with the idea that we need our troops to know when they are going home. They do.
If you are concerned about troop morale, then you need to address Pres. Bush’s point that Kerry saying that this war was a mistake hurts troop morale. Not to open another whole can of worms, but this is the point that the Swift Boat Vets have tried to make about Kerry’s anti-Vietnam stuff. I’ll admit upfront that I’m 30 years old and have no interest in or firsthand knowledge of that time period, but I would guess that if I was fighting in Vietnam and heard that the American People thought that I was risking my life for something that was at best a mistake I would have probably had a little more trouble sleeping at night. If I was a soldier in Iraq today and knew that the guy who wants to be President thinks that I’m risking my life for a mistake, I’m sure I would have more trouble sleeping at night.
If that guy became my Commander in Chief and still wanted me to risk my life for what, at that point must officially be a mistake, I don’t know that I wouldn’t seriously consider going AWOL.
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