Posted on 11/14/2019 6:18:41 AM PST by artichokegrower
President Trump's decision to remove our troops from the Turkish border and seize control of oilfields in eastern Syria has resulted in a flurry of articles and TV appearances from numerous retired generals warning us how wrong Trump is. The retired generals are highly critical of Trump's skepticism of our post-9/11 wars and his approach to rouge nations like Iran and North Korea as well as his plans for dealing with Russia and China.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Arab culture will always be best directed by a strong hand
One that is our pal
Ditto tribespeople of the Hindu Kush
Bushie nation building is a failed concept
The only place it works it’s already there
Even irony or irony Vietnam seems to be figuring it out
Alll those poor kids...nearly 60,000
“Hey guess what even though you’re dying here at 18 in a mud hole wholly unappreciated by the assholes at home one day it’ll all be good and there will be McDonalds in Hanoi and Ritz Carltons in Saigon but it won’t be called that by then...and the softened up crony commie capitalists will be begging us to come back with out military bases to protect them from the perpetual enemy on their northern border...so die peacefully now it’s all good”
It’s heartbreaking to me....guys i grew up a few years older who I admired from afar when I was 7th grade and they were high school footballers and stuff.... in my station at that snapshot of my childhood ....most went to Vietnam when I was 9-13....and some came back hurt or worse
For a war we didn’t have the heart to give them full total support
Trump is dead on how to project our power
It’s not even war anymore, it’s a police action with troops. I don’t care if every Muslim gets eradicated from this planet. (I’d actually prefer it)
You’re a c***.
Yeah, but then all that military industrial complex money would dry up and we can’t have that...
Still true after all these years...
I know what you mean and you’re very kind to say I’m like the Fonz.
Amazon write up re the book you cited:
Unique among the high ranking military officers of the US and the world I do not know of any other high ranking military officer of the US or the world, who has spoken or written such most important truths and facts about the nature and causes of war.
General Butler wrote these in simple and direct language that everyone can understand. His honesty; care for society, humanity, and justice for all; and profound insights; are self-evident in his writing. Moreover, it is even much more relevant now than when it was written in 1935.
“War Is a Racket” is the title of two works, a speech and a booklet, by retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two time Medal of Honor recipient Smedley D. Butler. In them, Butler frankly discusses from his experience as a career military officer how business interests commercially benefit (including war profiteering) from warfare.
After his retirement from the Marine Corps, Butler made a nationwide tour in the early 1930s giving his speech “War is a Racket”. The speech was so well received that he wrote a longer version as a small book with the same title that was published in 1935 by Round Table Press, Inc., of New York.
The booklet was also condensed in Reader’s Digest as a book supplement which helped popularize his message. In an introduction to the Reader’s Digest version, Lowell Thomas, the “as told to” author of Butler’s oral autobiographical adventures, praised Butler’s “moral as well as physical courage”.
I agree with ending the 9/11 wars as well. But we’re still in Afghanistan. We’re still in Syria. We’re still in Iraq and Saudi Arabia. We still have aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf. And I don’t see any timeline for any of that ending.
By noon on 9/12/2001 Mecca and Medina should have been smoking, glassed over radioactive rubble. Islam would have ceased to exist.
I own the book myself.
Thanks for the write up post.
I have to agree with EEGator.
Some people are just brainless twits. If not brainless they are uncaring and insensitive to others.
Hope you never have to lose a son. Some die every day but not because uncle sugar sent them to some shit hole to die. And for what? You?
Hundreds if not thousands of Kurds died helping nearly wipe out ISIS. That's not an option anymore.
Unless you are one of the six that were killed. I would suggest that their lives were as precious to them as yours is to you. And if you are so hot for someone to be there, you can always go yourself.
12,000 SDF fighters died. That’s how the operation was set up. They were the boots on the ground against ISIS.
Bump. The whole Military Leadership needs to be revised. When a great military cannot destroy an enemy like Afghanistan after 18 years something is very wrong. If the goal was not to destroy, demand surrender, declare victory and if, and only if it adds to this country’s wealth and security help rebuild the country then do not subject a generation of the country’s most loyal citizenry to an endless war. Agreed that political leaders make the calls, but it is up to the brass to stand and resign when leadership is poor, i.e. Obama.
You are unfairly putting these deaths on me. They were killed by muslamic radicals and not by anyone I support!
You can’t accomodate these radicals. Bin Laden made seven demands and I remember three of these. He demanded that America must admit to their false conspiracy theory of AIDS being created by Pentagon, nuke Las Vegas because it is a nest of sin and ban women from ad clips. That’s just them getting started. The other 4 demands were also stupid, but I remembered these three.
These terrorists have killed far more than 6 civilians on US soil alone and many of their attacks were foiled because they are fought against!
And if ISIS comes back we'll have to find other boots on the ground.
You don’t even know what you have done so forget it.
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