A country, and a future, worth serving
by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Content Agency
Oct 19, 2017
3 minutes
America's endless war quietly moves across the broken nations of the world. Every so often, U.S. soldiers die, as four Green Berets did several weeks ago in . . . Niger.
And the news was more about the adequacy of presidential condolences to the families of the slain soldiers than the point of our military presence there, i.e., why they died. An official sentiment was uttered by White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Oct. 5:
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of the fallen service members who
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