Posted on 02/12/2014 2:10:53 PM PST by drypowder
I understand that cheep heroin is now flooding our American streets. I’d venture to guess there is a connection to that stat and the 95% increase of the poppy production in Afghanistan since the US military has been there. Mexican drug cartel in cahoots with banksters and the US gubment explains why our southern boarder remains open.
Obama is culling our military with his muslim friends. Tie their hands and make them easier targets, string em up if they violate tighter ROE.
It sucks when your boss hates you, but it really sucks when he actively tries to get you killed.
I bet you never met one who joined to fight for Islam, either.
Bismark once said: “A soldiers life is like a penny, only good when spent.”
Well said.
Fight to win, or get out. We have a stupid s**t as Commander In Chief.
Actually, this individual died to fight for international corporations and their profits, whether he realizes it or not.
Bin Laden would have been killed by SF’s in a week if it were a real military operation.
/W: “He’s not even on the radar (referring to OBL). Now, watch this drive...” (Golf!!!!)
//That was recorded.
Reason for being in the Middle East?
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Smedley Butler was right.
Also: Oil and Israel.
Since WW2, US military involvement in war has been about making money for the Military Industrial Complex, nothing more. My sense is that the major stockholders of the companies that produce military weapons are also the same folks who own the world’s banking systems as well as the companies who own the world’s energy. I’ve always heard those with the gold make the rules.
As long as the federal government is thoroughly corrupt, supporting the mission of defending the federal government is useless. At this time, we cannot expect the federal government to protect the citizen, the reality is that the citizen is the target.
There are really only two reasons to join the military at this time. Subverting those in the military that are promoting the internationalist and anti-constitutional agenda, and learning skills useful for the future. Might I suggest sniper and explosives training.
Boys, time to come home and clean house. Alot of good Americans are waiting for the purge. And that purge is not what the boys and girls in DC are expecting.
We need you men and women in uniform to lead the way. True America is waiting for the second American revolution to begin!!!!
I commanded a rifle company in Vietnam in 1971. My First Sergeant was a veteran of WWII, Korea, and was on his third tour in Vietnam. Two of my three platoon sergeants had 8-10 years service. The rest of the company, including the Lieutenants, had less service than did I and most were younger. I was 23 with just over two years service.
None of them wanted to be the last guy to die in Vietnam. Except for myself and those mentioned above, they were all draftees. They were two and done, counting the days until their DEROS (Date Estimated Return Overseas) and ETS (Estimated Termination Service). They weren’t estimates.
We had some pretty crazy Rules of Engagement (ROE) back then too, and I had to work hard to overcome some of the restrictions that we faced. I didn’t like killing unarmed civilians even though many of them were busy planting booby traps (IED’s). It bothered me and it wasn’t the way to win an insurgency. But, the enemy was fair game and if some staff weenie in Saigon put an obstacle in my path, we found a way around it. I figured that every one of their guys that we killed was one less who could kill one of my guys.
What amazes me to this day is how wonderful those draftees were. Sure, there were some losers among their ranks, but most continued to be good soldiers regardless of the circumstances and for the most part, took care of the losers themselves.
Those trying times were the beginnings of my cynicism about politicians. It was mild compared to today.
Not a one!
After Benghazi, they should have figured this out.
Thanks for your service.
We should have been out of Afghanistan no later than 2003. None of this meals on wheels nation building crap, take out the Al-Q hideouts, and get out. A quick punitive expedition, and done.
Do you think that these wussified rules of engagement started with Obama??
So what does it take before...the domestic part kicks in?
I have a general rule of thumb that the reason something is being done, is to get the results you see it producing.
So what’s the effect of this endless war on America’s military? Of the insane ROEs? Of the complete lack of a final goal? Of the protection of Muslims by TSA? Of the use of the Patriot Act generally against Americans at home? Of the massive spread of DHS into every area of civilian life?
Those effects are the reason for this war, precisely because those effects are the results of the war. It need not be more complicated than that, and I don’t believe it is.
2 US troops killed, 4 wounded in Afghanistan
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/2-us-troops-killed-4-wounded-in-afghanistan/
US military deaths in Afghanistan at 2,169
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/us-military-deaths-in-afghanistan-at-2169/2014/02/11/05261ee4-934f-11e3-b3f7-f5107432ca45_story.html
When large enough quantities of profit are involved.
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