The recent controversy regarding Donald Trump’s criticism of Liz Cheney as a warhawk who has never faced the dangers of the wars she embraces has synthesized an issue that may be opaque to non-veterans: the extreme resentment many veterans of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) feel toward Kamala Harris and the Democrat Party.
Harris and the Democrats have created a perfect storm of veteran disdain in that they have succeeded in uniting three once-inapposite groups behind Harris: the neocons who started the GWOT, the media and Democrats who undermined the veterans’ GWOT missions, and the generals who failed again and again and again at bringing the GWOT to a successful conclusion.
I am a US Marine Vietnam veteran. I firmly believe that the US needs to cease being the "Policeman of the World" and concentrate on making America healthy again.
ReplyDeleteAmen, thank-you
Deletesorry. my dad taught me to hate the war hawks long before the GWOT.
ReplyDeletealthough he did fight in WW2. he also pointed out that FDR did everything he could to piss off the Japs before they hit pearl. that started me looking at what happen BEFORE the war started to figured out why. BTW. back in the days of old, if did a blockade on a country it was thought of as a "act of war" kind of like the bans they always pushing on somebody who doesn't do as they want them too. the USA has not been a "good guy" for a long time now. if you can find it. read "the arms of Krupp". that will show you just how bad the MIC really is. but there are a lot of books on it these days.
My dad was the same, a rifleman in the Army, he was a firm believer that Gen. Patton was held back by the president from doing his job so the war wouldn't end too soon. He was also adamant that Pearl Harbor shouldn't have happened but political will made sure to keep the information secret.
DeleteThe history books were written but not everything written is the truth
JD
With Trump as C-in-C, maybe recruiting will be great again. I'm 75, can't imagine letting my grandsons sign up with Kamala as C-in-C. A ton of generals have to go along with her.
ReplyDeleteBefore that can happen, he will need to clean out all the Obama appointed Generals & Admirals, replacing them with real war fighters. In retrospect, that is the reverse of what Obama did in removing the warfighters, and replacing them with swamp supporting political appointees.
DeleteImagine fighting people in a far off land (most likely Israel-adjacent) and your battle-buddy has a remote control butt-plug and the bluetooth gives away your position to a loitering EM-detecting drone and you get your shit scattered to the breeze.
DeleteBecause democracy.
This hasn't been a nation for a long time, don't kid yourself about that.
Generals gotta go, especially the ones who served Afghanistan the last 10 years
DeleteTo quote Rudyard Kipling once again: If any question why we died, tell them because our fathers lied.
ReplyDeleteI spent a year in Iraq and a year in Afghanistan while in the Army.
ReplyDeleteNot for one minute did I defend America or make Americans freer or safer. It was all a sham. All the lives, all the treasure, only to make rich men richer, spread GloboHomo, and feed the industrial military grinder.
Yes.
DeleteI got rope a doped into the Clinton wars in the late 90s, and did my final combat tour in Iraq in 04. Nothing I did in any of the 3 conflicts I saw made America safer in any way whatsoever.
I'm so happy that my friends died for nothing, and that the exact same fools who ran that shit fuck are still in charge and trying harder than ever to start a new one in -insert name of country here - so their buddy's will hire them at Raytheon in a year of two.
The tradition of serving this country that started in my family in 1741 ends with me. I forbid my children to join. I actively work to embarrass recruiters whenever I see them.
Add Viet Nam to that list. Smedley Butler was right.
DeleteIf we are going to war then the children of those making that decision HAS to serve in a front line position. No back line shit, no office, no consulting crap. Here's your rifle and gear, the enemy is that way so lead the way..
ReplyDeleteOh and the back stabbing assholes like john kerry, those generals that sit around doing nothing and everyone else like that eats a bullet a sunrise tomorrow
JD
I have put forward the idea of a constitutional amendment that will require the children of any national level politician to serve as a rifleman in an infantry company of a rapid deployment infantry division. For the duration of their political career. No cooks, no general's drivers, no company clerks, rifleman. That includes the girls.
DeleteNo children would be a disqualifier for political office.
I recall trying to sleep in the back of a C-17 heading for the second Iraq mess, listening to two of my guys arguing about whether there were 'weapons of mass destruction'. We're here for the oil, gentlemen - where we're going, it's always about the oil. Ended the argument, sleep achieved.
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