One Doctor's Life For One SEAL's Life: Was It Really Worth That? -- Andrew Malcolm, Investors.com
It's the kind of news that makes anyone sick, especially parents and especially around the holidays when families are supposed to be reunited, not shattered.
And when it's the death of just one person, the fatal event allows those watching to personalize this awful Afghanistan war, which is ignored at home and has descended into a meaninglessness drift after a decade of deaths.
Nicolas Checque was a 28-year-old, much-decorated member of the hallowed SEAL Team 6, among the elite of the secret warriors from all the armed forces who will continue to be the discrete spear-point of the dark wars it seems we'll face for a very long time.
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My Comment: Nicolas Cheque .... like everyone else who has decided to serve in the American military .... know the risks and sacrifices. Our prayers are with his familiy and loved ones. As to the question .... One Doctor's Life For One SEAL's Life: Was It Really Worth That? .... that's an impossible question for me to answer. But I do know one thing .... one U.S. soldiers life is worth more than a thousand dead Taliban .... much more.
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