It is my belief that there has been a long term, deliberate policy/plan to grind down, over-deploy, stress out and weaken our military.
Additionally, destruction of morale through impossible ROE’s and legal prosecution/persecution via corrupt, politically-motivated JAG and NCIS lawyers and their politicized command hierarchy. Remember the “Haditha 9” marines? Multiply that by dozens of similar cases that passed beneath the public’s radar, which have destroyed careers, impoverished the families of services members and imprisoned many.
Now we are about to witness Sgt. Bales own chain of command throw him to the wolves in a vain, stupid and futile attempt to appease the mob of un-appeasable savages.
Agree with all you’re saying re Sgt. Bales. I’d like to know how many guys have been prosecuted like Haditha 9 (all of whom were acquitted except Sgt Witterich who copped a plea to “insubordination” in lieu of mass murder). This is bringng to my mind Tim McVeigh. No comparison in scale of course. But I’d love to know what Tim was thinking. Neither he nor Bales have claimed “insanity”. Indeed a mental defect has been aluded to with Bales (”brain trauma”) but not to the level of legal defense. The active servisemen I am hearing from (I’m a veteran) are pretty much down on Bales for once again portrating us “all” as baby killers. The stresses and humiliation the US command structure and CIC have and are placing on these guys is intolerable, and now they threaten to further reduce retirement medical and financial benefits.
I agree with what yo said,zeros plan was always to savage the military, over use them demoralize them and then defund them.An axelrod way of destroying them,they are almost there.