We shouldn’t have put a boot on the ground, BCW; a waste of American Blood & Treasure. ICBMs were the answer, but I read somewhere here that GWB was “threatened” if he used them. WHAT could they threaten us with?
I think there is a high majority in WASH DC that really think that if we go into a depressed area and re0build it - then attitudes about the US will change. Or that, the elected officials want these events to stay in power. The elitist mindset has always used the common soldier and civilian to prop themselves up to a higher level.
This SGT probably saw everything to dark - from Iraq to Afghan and he did what Hollywood movies like to glorify on the screen to sell tickets...a person from our society - raised with our standards can only take so much...PTSD is going to be a major problem. Death scenes from WW II - be it Europe or Japanese prisoner camps - get close - but only a few select were exposed to that type of brutal behavior - almost every soldier/marine that went out on patrols were exposed to it daily...combat personnel in Iraq were engaged in more firefights and battles than that of the WW II generation...there were no maneuvering of armies that culminated into a specific battle - it was a daily fight every time a patrol went out in Iraq and the same for Afghan...and we are shocked when this happens?
I’m sure the press will drive it into the ground like they do everything else....they are most ignorant of people -
I hope the media knows that if this country ever goes belly up from a revolution from below - they will be the first that are dragged out of their corporate news offices and hung — revolutions don’t like free press — not that we have that any more....