Dang. My brother did two tours in Baghdad, helping the Green Zone businesses get back on their feet, with business plans and financing and all. He worked so hard, and now the recovery he helped create will be completely gone, and it will be as if he never showed up and did anything. And his story will be the same as all the other military officers and contractors who were involved. It just makes me sick.
The American Embassy there was under construction when my brother was there, and it was this behemoth, this fortress, that was supposed to be safe from attack. It was colossally expensive. Now people are running away, anyway.
And my niece served in Mosul, as an Army nurse. Came home with PTSD from all the gore she saw. For what purpose? Mosul is lost. She sacrificed for her country for nothing.
This is just sickening.
Yes it is. I was in Vietnam, and that left a bad taste in my mouth, that has never gone away, so I can relate to it.