I have nothing but respect for the military. I have seen it abused...that's all...deployed to 'defoliate' Southeast Asia to enhance profits at Dow Chemical Corp. Soldiers ordered NOT to shoot unless shot at first. Enemy (Viet Cong) EMPLOYED on base (Danang) during the day (cutting hair at the base barber shop among other things) then lobbing mortars onto the base at night...Military Police at the perimeter WATCHING them set up the launchers but under orders not to engage. Same with the Ho Chi Minh Trail...
Our troops have performed magnificently in Iraq. I will not stand idly by & watch them eventually deployed to 'foliate' the Middle East desert...planting ivy, then fertilizing & watering same...to enhance the profits of corporations who supply the ivy, fertilizer, and equipment...while the troops are told they're on an endless search for Osama bin Laden.
It took less time for American troops to bring BOTH Hitler's Third Reich & the Empire of Japan to the Surrender Table. Our troops today are just as good (if not better) & definitely better equipped...
For 15 years, I've longed to see the Clintons where they are today: on a gurney being wheeled to the Emergency Room...near political death. There will be plenty of time to deal with Obama (the Mastermind of the Clintonian demise) once Hitlery & Slick Willie have definitely EXPIRED...
I can agree with you on the Clintons, but the damage they have done to this country is going to extend far past their political careers.
They are all birds of a feather on the Left, and their mistreatment of our military that began in the sixties is still held up as a badge of honor by those in power on the left. That has not changed.
I don’t see our troops being used as a tool to extract profits for big corporations. Are they engaged in humanitarian and pacification operations and not total war? Sure.
But the model of counterinsurgency that has been followed by the US Marines when they weren’t involved in a full blown war is still the best way to go. They wrote the manual on it. We could bomb them into rubble, but it won’t solve anything, and it isn’t the way we work.
Can we do better operationally? Yes. Can we supply our troops better and pay them better? The answer to that is ALWAYS yes.
No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy applies, and it is a microcosm of the USA in general.
Roosevelt didn't have to fight the MSM, academia and the Republicans during WWII. Those who opposed the war effort disappeared and spent the remainder of the war in mental insituttions.