Go ahead, let 'em speak. No one listens to the parents of Tommy Atkins. Certainly not the D.C. elite.
We all served for various reasons, and we all recognize the flaws of our branch of service with its uniformly flawed meritocracy. We all continue to praise and believe in it inspite of its flaws. We trusted our non-rates, our PO's, LPO's, CPO's, DiV-O's, DH's and on up the chain.
Yet, I'd happily bet very few of us trusted the D.C. elite. The ivory tower advisors that have been in nothing but academia, government, or some partisan think-tank while they waited for their party to return to power in the White House.
Go ahead, let 'em speak. No one listens, certainly not the D.C. elite.
"This does not mean that [U.S. soldiers] are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: "Only the dead have seen the end of war.""-
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, May 12,1962
Next time anyone says, "You break it, you bought it" when it comes to retaliatory expeditions, can we tell them to shut up?
Go ahead, let 'em speak. No one listens to the parents of Tommy Atkins. Certainly not the D.C. elite.
We all served for various reasons, and we all recognize the flaws of our branch of service with its uniformly flawed meritocracy. We all continue to praise and believe in it inspite of its flaws. We trusted our non-rates, our PO's, LPO's, CPO's, DiV-O's, DH's and on up the chain.
Yet, I'd happily bet very few of us trusted the D.C. elite. The ivory tower advisors that have been in nothing but academia, government, or some partisan think-tank while they waited for their party to return to power in the White House.
Go ahead, let 'em speak. No one listens, certainly not the D.C. elite.
Let's let all the families of the 7057 fallen in the "GWOT" speak.
The whole thing was a fiasco, as Tom Ricks wrote in 2006.
"This does not mean that [U.S. soldiers] are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: "Only the dead have seen the end of war.""-
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, May 12,1962
POTATUS says we did great in leaving Afghanistan....