Have you ever lost anyone, any buddies, in war? Do you know what honor means to them? Do you know why they try so hard to rescue their own? Do you know the investment our troops have already made? Can you with all honesty tell them to “just suck it up” your loss of life was not worth the effort, we are throwing in the towel and giving the country to the Taliban”?
With your sentiments prevailing our military troops will experience the demoralizing “Vietnam syndrome” all over again, and at a time we cannot afford that.
I talk to Afghanistan vets at least once per week.
And we talk about that war.
Not one of them has ever said anything resembling your contention that we have to honor the fallen by staying and fighting.
Every comment I’ve heard from them is along the lines of we should get out now. Or, what the hell were they thinking when we went there in the first place...
I’m in a group discussion at the VA. Lot’s of those guys there.
Where the hell did you come up with this silly idea about honoring fallen vets by sentencing more to die? That is not based on any military culture I’ve ever been exposed to.
You’re inventing silly shit from your own dreamland.