RSSComforting the comforter
Tom Bowler | December 22, 2008
From the Washington Times:
Asked where he gets the strength to meet with the families of soldiers whom he – as commnder in chief – sent to their deaths, he turned stern.
“You have to believe in the cause. You have to understand that – and believe we’ll be successful. If I didn’t believe in the cause, it would be unbelievably terrible. I believe strongly in what we’re doing. I believe it’s necessary for our security. And I believe history will justify the actions. …
“The interesting thing is, most of our troops fully understand this. They know we must defeat the enemy there so we don’t have to face them here. And in a place like Iraq, they fully understood that Iraq was a front for al Qaeda. And they saw their mission as one of defending America by defeating al Qaeda,” he told The Times.
Meeting with the families of the fallen has allowed the president to step out of the bubble that often surrounds him, to meet real people. “I find out a lot about the individuals when the families come and see me, because one thing they want to do is, they want to share. They want to share pictures or letters or moments.
“And I ask them to describe their loved one. What should I know about this person? Or they volunteer – ‘You’d like this guy.’ And many of them have said – it’s amazing, the comforter in chief oftentimes is the comforted person – comforted because of their strength, comforted because of their devotion, comforted because of their love for their family member. And a lot of them said, Mr. President, please know that my child wanted to do this.”
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