I wrote this a year ago. In 12 months, little has changed.
My generation’s war was Vietnam. At the time we were told that we needed to “fight them over there or we would be fighting them over here”. We were also told that it was a matter of supporting democracy and winning hearts and minds. Eventually, America got tired and walked away.
For the past 40 years we have been involved, in one way or another, in the Middle East. Recently we have been informed that to “defeat ISIS” we have reinserted Army Rangers and a Marine expeditionary unit.
Until we make our borders secure, until we can screen every immigrant, why bother going overseas and killing people who might (big MIGHT) someday come here and hurt our citizens.
We interfere in other peoples affairs when we would not tolerate it in our own neighborhood by a foreign government.
When will Americas government stop being arrogant and thinking we know what is best for everyone else in the world a lot of people will stop hating us as much.
Meanwhile we treat our vets to substandard treatment while shipping millions overseas fixing things that we broke.
TPTB that sell us on the Military Adventurism don’t care about our Marines, Sailors and Soldiers lives, all they care about is either distracting from something or covering their economic behinds.
Albert Einstein is quoted as saying; “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” We seem to be making the same decisions getting the same results over and over and over.
Therefore; by definition, as a nation we are insane.
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