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More Senseless Death in Afghanistan

ronorono
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Howdy folks,

So glad they're all out. Welcome home.

rono is not happy,

More senseless deaths in Afghanistan

Here we go again. When are we going to learn you cannot fight a clean war. They don’t exist. Our government, since the early 1950’s has been leading us to believe that we can fight clean wars and nation build and keep the bad guys from coming after us here. Rubbish. At this moment, we have troops on the ground in about 100 countries around the world. Why? To wage an eternal war against terrorism? All we’re doing is making enemies. What is worse, is that every one of these clean wars leaves us with dead men and women, no geopolitical gains and trillions of wasted dollars.

Just for the record folks, war means you kill everything that moves: men, women, children, sheep, pigs, cattle, dogs, cats and even the goldfish. If it doesn’t move, you burn it down or blow it up. And you keep doing this until they surrender. Up until after WWII, this is what we did AFTER we were attacked. This is what war is and it’s ugly. Indeed, the ugliest pastime we humans have ever created. Now if you’re not willing to do this, and many aren’t, you need to invite your enemy over for dinner and have them bring their kids to meet yours. You are not ready for war.

Since Korea, these clean wars - wars that we started - were where we were not attacked by the country we waged war against. Korea didn’t attack us. Vietnam didn’t attack us. Iraq didn’t attack us. Afghanistan didn’t attack us. Hell, 9/11 wasn’t the Afghanis, it was the Saudis. Bin Laden was Saudi royal family. Most of the 9/11 hijackers had Saudi passports. Did we strike back at them? Of course not. That’s where we get our oil, so we went to war with Afghanistan. No oil there.

It’s time to revoke this eternal, never-ending war powers act of the President, bring all troops home and simply defend the shores. In the future, no US service people should ever go overseas without a 2/3 majority in both houses of congress and Presidential approval.

We could save $500 billion a year in defense spending and at the same time improve our military technology, training and superiority. Perhaps more importantly, America could start being decent human beings again, instead the imperialistic swine we are today.

RIP to my brothers and sisters. Semper Fidelis.

S/Sgt R.V. Overton, Admin Chief, CoA, 1st Recon Battalion, 1stMarine Division
March 1968 – November 1969, Danang, RVN

so sad,

peace and wear the mask,

rono

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