Supporting through opposition

Funny how sometimes outsiders have to point out the obvious. Take, for example, this report from the UK paper, The Observer, in regards to our troops and war:

Only a third of the regular army's brigades now qualify as combat-ready...
the US army has a shortfall of 3,000 commissioned officers - and the problem is expected to worsen...
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have led to the destruction, or wearing out, of 40 per cent of the US army's equipment, totalling at a recent count $212bn...
soldiers serving multiple Iraq deployments, now amounting to several years, are 50 per cent more likely than those with one tour to suffer from acute combat stress.

And, finally, the words of an enlisted chaplain's assistant, "Why don't you tell the truth? Why don't you journalists write that this army is exhausted?"

Yellow ribbon bumper stickers don't support the troops. Listening to them... then bringing them home when their lives are not worth losing to a misguided, unachievable mission, is supporting the troops.