Posted on 06/29/2014 4:12:47 AM PDT by SamAdams76
The American military is facing a serious personnel issue: More than two-thirds of today's youth are too uneducated, have behavior issues, and are not physically fit enough for service.
"We're trying to make decision makers see this is a national-security matter — and they need to prioritize it," retired Maj. Gen. Allen Youngman told The Wall Street Journal.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
“we didn’t lose wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
You have been duped by moonbat propagandists”
There is no indication that the American lives squandered in those “wars” accomplished anything at all; we lost (and our “enemies” rule both now).
This excerpt never got much coverage and has dropped completely off the public’s radar. To me, it says everything one needs to know about Obama, how he thinks and where he wants to go; from Obama speech saying, “We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded.”
BTW, the moonbats are pretending we won (because Obama is in office).
actually, the Gulf is peaceful and the trade zones are functioning well. your narrow view of victory is erronious
It's global. It's playing out more like the Illuminati-elite globalist-banking conspiracies of old than as having any similarity to what's written in the history books and fed to us as news.
But, as a group, they are dependent and vote Democrat. That is the more important statistic for the Left.
“actually, the Gulf is peaceful and the trade zones are functioning well. your narrow view of victory is erronious”
I specifically referred to Iraq and Afghanistan; neither is peaceful or functioning well. If you are referring to the Arab millionaires of the peninsula, then you are correct - they are doing just fine.
When I was in, I served with quite a few young men that weren’t citizens but were in the process of getting their citizenship. They seemed as committed as the rest of the guys, and more committed that some subgroups that were born and raised in this country.
We served in combat together and off hand, I can recall dozens of people gaming the system or committing outright fraud trying to get out of combat but none of them were the ones that were seeking citizenship.
I’m really getting saddened by the tattoos.. That’s not the right word.,
My sister and I went to this gorgeous wedding a few weeks ago which I know must have set the bride and groom back a lot of money.
The bride had on a standard strapless dress, and during the service she had s little caplet which covered her cleavage. All the maids had the same thing.
We get to the reception, and the bride and most of her maids were coverd chest tattoos and back tattoos. IMHO, they made the dresses look cheap, and I really think they made the girls less beautiful.
I’m only mentioning it because this is the first time I’m noticing girls in NJ are evolving from tramp stsmps to major stuff.
I wonder how they will feel when they are 60 or older with their inked bodies,
When you were in the military? I suspect that until not too long ago, non-citizen recruits had for the most part wanted a ticket to US citizenship and integrating. These new groups on the whole don’t even speak English, and they won’t have connections to communities. They’ll be likely to do what the feds tell them to do.
Much has been said about "You cannot impose a military dictatorship in the US, the military is full of patriots who would not allow it".
The solution to that is to replace the patriots with people who hate white, Christian, middle-class America.
“... the sad reality is that after losing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan we simply don’t need them. People have proposed work programs like the CCC or WPA to address the unemployment; while that is debated the military is simply serving as those programs.”
The saddest subsection of reality is that the American public believes Great Britain lost its war in Afghanistan (circa 1898).
The same logic applies to American defeats in Southeast Asia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Minus any hard-headed calculation of the national interest, or any but the feeblest actions in support of same.
And there’s more news: the CCC was organized and run by the War Dept - in sum, by the US Army. So the military was doing duty as the employer of last resort some decades before any “prison or draft” choice confronted the little offenders of the 1960s. Any such initiative might not fare so well these days: half a century on, soldiering has been transformed and demands different abilities.
“... the sad reality is that after losing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan we simply don’t need them. People have proposed work programs like the CCC or WPA to address the unemployment; while that is debated the military is simply serving as those programs.”
The saddest subsection of reality is that the American public believes Great Britain lost its war in Afghanistan (circa 1898).
The same logic applies to American defeats in Southeast Asia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Minus any hard-headed calculation of the national interest, or any but the feeblest actions in support of same.
And there’s more news: the CCC was organized and run by the War Dept - in sum, by the US Army. So the military was doing duty as the employer of last resort some decades before any “prison or draft” choice confronted the little offenders of the 1960s. Any such initiative might not fare so well these days: half a century on, soldiering has been transformed and demands different abilities.
Are they not transgender enough?
I personally have never understood the attraction of tattoos, but never thought much of them when people had them in places where they wouldn’t be seen when wearing normal clothing (which I believe is the military requirement now). Nowadays it seems like a competition for “freak of the year”, with facial/neck tattoos and such; I can’t believe that some people aren’t tattoooing themselves out of whole sectors of the workplace with them. I recall seeing something where people described an “addiction” to getting tattoos; I see them more as a sign of boredom by people experiencing feelings of being inconsequential or going through mid-life crises (a female co-worker in her 50s with a tramp-stamp was just sad...).
I just don’t get it; I’m not hip or cool (and proud to be neither).
That's because the except was taken out of context. And contrary to what you say, it got a lot of coverage/promotion in the right wing media. But it never got any traction because any second grader could see it was phony mis-info.
And if you examine the totality of what Obama was saying, most people agree with Obama. The notion that the US can successfully implement a foreign policy based largely on military intervention has been proven to be false and absurd.
Not only does it not work, it costs huge sums of money and kills/maims many Americans.
“The same logic applies to American defeats in Southeast Asia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Minus any hard-headed calculation of the national interest, or any but the feeblest actions in support of same.”
If the purpose was to simply kill more of them than we lost, I guess we won all three. There is no other formula by which any of the three is a victory.
“the CCC was organized and run by the War Dept - in sum, by the US Army. So the military was doing duty as the employer of last resort some decades before any “prison or draft” choice confronted the little offenders of the 1960s. Any such initiative might not fare so well these days: half a century on, soldiering has been transformed and demands different abilities.”
Sure; they were preparing an adult population for soldiering for the coming war. I’m not even criticizing the role today, just explaining why they can be picky. The money to keep the workfare going is running out, so some of the chaff has to be separated from the wheat (and apparently tattoos and weight overlooked ten years ago are the indicators now).
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