President Obama was in Arlington National Cemetery where 300,000 Americans are buried from the wars fought.

President Obama greets Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran Eilene Henderson in the Arlington National Cemetery during his Memorial Day visit there Monday.

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This is an amazing statement by the Neocons favorite newsprint, The Christan Science Monitor.

The number of Americans who serve in the US military – especially those sent to combat – has gone down dramatically in recent years. Critics say civilians need to assume more responsibility for the moral burden of war as well as for the other costs of fighting.

The current estimate of the two wars begun under Bush/Cheney is $1,442,729,700,000 with Iraq costing nearly $810 billion and Afghanistan nearly $632 billion. That isn't assuming responsibility. I mean what kind of a state is that?

By Brad Knickerbocker, Staff writer / May 27, 2013

...“Regardless of reason, (click here) this truth cannot be ignored that today most Americans are not directly touched by war,” Mr. Obama told a crowd of dignitaries and military families gathered to mark Memorial Day. “As a consequence, not all Americans may always see or fully grasp the depths of sacrifice, the profound costs that are made in our name, right now, as we speak, everyday.”...

I think the Middle Class and the impoverished in this nation know exactly the cost of war and have carried far more of the responsibility than any one else. So, when those that want to criticize the citizen about the burden of war, they first have to criticize the people most responsible for fighting them.

It is true the majority of Americans are not directly touched by the death of a soldier, but, I do believe we significantly can understand how we don't want them to die and the best way to prevent American soldiers from dying is to never enter into wars for oil, profit, bad habit or revenge. 

I can't think of a better way to keep less people from being buried at Arlington, can you?

We have no troops in Syria, so what was McCain thinking? Seriously. There was no valid reason for him to go into Syria, except, to stir up trouble. Turkey doesn't know what is occurring the other side of it's border? Israel doesn't know what is occurring? McCain wants another Iraq War. I don't think so.