The Price of War – Can you spare a DIME?

 ‘Blessed Memory And Beloved Freedom’, (New York Post)…Adm. James G. Stavridis, May 29, 2008

The following is excerpted from remarks by Adm. James G. Stavridis, the head of US Southern Command, at the Intrepid Foundation’s Memorial Day ceremony on Pier 84 in Manhattan.

As I read the words of these heroes, try to picture the writers. Sit next to them. Feel what they feel as they write. Be with them as they open their hearts to their families. In doing so, you will yourself touch the heart of what Memorial Day should be for each of us.

Hope you click on the article and read the last words of Soldiers from the Civil War, WW I, WW II and Iraq.

Application of the military element of power represents a “failure” by the other elements of power to prevent war.  Prevention not always possible. One of the outcomes from the war in Iraq is more of an awareness that we need  “whole government” approaches to managing, preventing, and resolving conflict.