I am just a contractor now. I used travel a lot here in my job. There are not many places to travel to now because we closed most of them. We have given up a lot of the country in the past few years. My thought is that either we need to try to win this or leave, but that is just me.
I am with you on that
I hope the President gets serious.
Semper Fi
“We have given up a lot of the country in the past few years. My thought is that either we need to try to win this or leave,...”
Geez, I’m having flashbacks to Tet.
Collapsing and collapsing and then evacuating...
Top NV General wrote much later that Tet was their last, great hope; had we stayed, and held a line after that they would have folded like a cheap suit because they’d thrown it all at us in that offensive.
But, of course, we had the likes of Jane Fonda and Walter Cronkite to tell us that it was better for us to pull the plug...
Look, I was just a kid, but I had enough head on my shoulders even back then to read the tea leaves and understand we were taking a canvas nap for political purposes.
I felt horrible for our troops; they deserved a solid victory after all that crap, but spaghetti-spined leftards and their shrinking violet GOP kin in D.C. hadn’t the stomach to win; they needed the votes of the Flower Children to shore up their cash flows.
DAMN I’d hate to see a repeat of that scene unfold in Afghanistan. Most disgustingly would be the final vindication of every cheap Washington fat cat who ever wagged their meaty finger at a camera and warned us against a “quagmire.”
I’m queasy just mulling the possibility we could — once again, and for purely political reasons — snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Just...DAMN!