Thank you for this timely article. Pam and Charles' story brought me into close and personal touch with the additional suffering of our service men and women who look to the V.A. to facilitate their re-entry into civilian society and instead find a resistant adversary. Clermont reveals another grim and sobering dimension of Bush's War that joins the testimony of the Winter Soldier hearings of last weekend.

Ms. Sohlman does a powerful and thoughtful national defense reframing of the alternative energy issue. In the '50's President Eisenhower sold the interstate highway system to the country as necessary for national defense. Is a contemporary version of the same argument something like this: If the sponsors of our enemies in the war on terror are Middle East oil tyrants, alternate energy development by the United States is a non-violent defense strategy in that war?

What does the WIP community think?