I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's one thing to say you're for the war; it's another thing to send your kid to war - your daughter or your son.
I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.
I hope my own children never have to fight a war.
If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.
I think it's very uncomfortable for people to talk to children about war, and so they don't because it's easier not to. But then you have young people at eighteen who are enlisting in the army, and they really don't have the slightest idea what they're getting into.
When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us.
To the next generation, your war is here; you don't have to find it.
We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and the American people understand this.
Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
A war is justified if you're willing to send your son. If you're not willing to send your son, then how do you send someone else's?
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