Posted on 09/01/2024 7:54:08 PM PDT by blueplum
Why would we want to fight a war when we are a fiscally and morally bankrupt former nation?
Interesting.
Calling all the veterans here mere cannon fodder is degrading to the patriots who have served and to the American nation they served.
The American military has not been used as mere cannon fodder, we have a history of valuing our soldiers lives and using them as sparingly as possible.
Two thumbs up.
Thank you for your service.
This VN combat vet will do everything I can, if I’m still around in 4 years, to see that my now 14-year-old grandson will not be drafted.
I agreed. I believed GWB and his war on terror. I feel like a fool now. We destroyed Libya for no damn reason - they had the most free and highest standard of living. I think we stole their gold but just my opinion.
Our country supports radical / moderate (if that exists) Islamic over Christian nations, sold our own people for a few extra bucks to China so they could militarily compete with us.
So I’m not sure you could convince the real men to buy their bullshit anymore. I won’t believe them ever again. 81+ million votes for the potato is BS.
I hope our country doesn’t need to try to talk people to fight another war with BS ROE. Nope - they will have to go to prisons, draft … to form an army to fight a major conflict. May God forgive us.
Here comes the much talked about Draft.
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They’ll have a really tough time with the draft this time.
They’ll probably want illegals to take up the slack.
Maybe if Trump is re-elected and cleans house at the top.
I mean cleans house with a sharp axe.
How can we have a war? We have no commander in chief? Biden’s on the beach in a coma and Harris is a half wit.
Vietnam? Why did we stay in Afghanistan 12 years after the assassination of Osama bin Laden?
What the hell would we be fighting for anyway. Freedom? Yeah, right!
Why not women? Illegals? Blacks and Asians? We may need to re do the draft. In any sort of war that would be a must—but getting the new generation though Boot Camp would be a challenge.
It was seven billion, not one million.
You may not have liked the mission but our troops were not treated as cannon fodder like the Russians and Chinese do, two examples of nations who are indifferent to their losses and place little to no value on their soldiers lives.
The fag’s and lezbos won’t fight and American patriots won’t enlist!
And enough money for what, 11 CVN - at least the ships
It’s an interesting but wrong-headed article.
Between the Army and Marine active, organized reserve and (Army) guard, we have on the order of 150 maneuver (infantry, armor) battalions and 50 artillery battalions. There is no conceivable fight with non-nuclear powers for which this is an insufficient force, and there is no reason to believe that we would ever have a conventional ground forces fight with another nuclear power.
We have the manning necessary to operate on the order of 3,500 combat aircraft across the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines - ditto being more than enough.
As I look at Iraq and Afghanistan, and wince in pain every morning when I first put my feet in the ground, I have no doubt I was nothing but cannon fodder to the elites.
There’s a real simple solution. With the draft, they’ve got all the normal sons and grandsons of our’s they’ll need for all their globalist misadventures.
A simple majority vote by that gang of warmongers in the Capitol brings it back.
Calling our troops “cannon fodder” is perhaps an inappropriate choice of words. But I can understand why it was used, given the historical nature of the phrase.
Better to call the overseas deployment of our soldiers “reckless”. We throw our people into regions with no clear goal, and with no exit strategy.
A perfect example of this is the deployment of our troops in Syria. The Syrian government does not want us there. Yet there we are, a target for any nut with a mobile rocket launcher. When will we leave? Who knows?
If you choose to think that way it is more a personality trait, just be happy you weren’t really fighting for a nation that treats its soldiers with actual indifference to their deaths and suffering and the quantity of it.
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