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Sunday, November 13, 2011

You can't fight every war!

I see, in the news, that the candidates for the Presidency, except Congressman Ron Paul, want to use military force against Iran over their supposed, but publicly undocumented quest for nuclear weapons.  Let me tell these arm chair, never served a day in their life in uniform, never been in harms way, never shot anyone, never had ANY type of weapon pointed at them, CHICKEN HAWKS, that we do not have enough military might to fight every battle in the world.  Our military has been at war, actively in the field, for over 10 years!  Our men have been deployed time after time.  They are worn out!  When they are home, they are under the constant barrage of political news reports that they are making too much money, are being given too good a benefits package, and are permitted to retire to young with too much money!   Try going to war, every other year, for 13 months, people trying to kill you 24/7.  No rest, no breaks, no home!  Being in the military is hard.   If it was easy, everyone would do it!  And as a career Soldier, Marine, Sailor, Airman, the stress level is multiplied exponentially.  Yes, they try to make it look easy, we even even recruit females, gays, and old guys.  But, most of them are in the rear with the beer and the gear, trust me.  The guys on the pointy end of the spear are battle hardened men with brass balls. All that being said, our military men are tired, even fatigued!  Our equipment needs refreshed at best and probably replaced all together!

So, my advice is, set this one out, you Chicken Hawks.  Or, go fight it yourselves, and let the professional military men critique your performance!    

2 comments:

  1. Politicians need to consider the coming civil war called for by #OWS. It is coming.

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  2. This is so true.
    The drums of war beat on, though.
    The young comes to replace the old.
    Fresh recruits with no experience and many ambitions come into play, and who are we to tell these boys they won't get their fair share.
    They'll get to be the same battle-hardened vets you now are.
    The only thing is, they don't know that yet.
    So politicians also come into play. They don't get battle weary, they don't get homesick bruised or shot. They just get rich, they just get fat and they just get old.
    The spoils from the last war fund new ones and they feed on fears and hopes just like the reverend fears on deepest human insecurities.
    Politicians, the ministers of war, the strings behind the play.
    That's why the system is so successful. Generations of violinists come and go. Bassists, saxophonists. All, but the maestros never get old.
    Off we sail, to new wars and new dreams, to infinity and beyond.
    The old saying, though, remains true that, "Only the dead have seen the end of war".

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