Disheartening

Did you know that this month, August 2009, has been the worst month for American soldier casualties in Afghanistan in the past 8 years?
Jesus. As my blog title states- that is horribly disheartening. Watching the faces scroll across the screen last night on CH 13 News Hour, you just see young men, boys really, and they've lost their lives for our country. For us. Do we REALLY get it, that loss and what the hell is going on? Dammit, something has got to give. I feel so helpless. I mean, how can we not feel connected to these deaths? And I am a very positive person, for the most part, but all I can picture is the opposition hiding in these mountain caves doing some sort of sadistic mountain training. Sick. Makes me really see how much hatred still exists in this world. They've got so many nuclear weapons all over the place that it is just plain scary. Do not be fooled.
My friend, he says that we should just level the landscape and the mountains. That is terribly unrealistic and also depressing. I cannot stand fighting and war.
Pray for peace. Only thing I can think.