Best,
Alexander

“It brakes my heart to hear that you are in our armed forces. You know nothing of the code real Soldiers live by.”

What in the Hell are you talking about? Your perspective is at best less than 60 degrees.

My comments in the above post were directed to those who are in our military suggesting that we have been undermined by our political leaders and have lost the direct support of America’s working citizens through ignorance in choosing our elected, national representatives.

How you can extrapolate from there to conclude I am presently in our armed forces, and then further to state my ignorance of a “code real Soldiers live by” escapes me.

Perhaps you are a State Department employee working on “social justice” (nee Peace Corps) somewhere overseas and have injested too much local weed to note your sense of reality just might be distorted.

I have had many encounters with those (now silver haired) educators and politicians who have done their work ever since they shouted “Hell no, we won’t go” to whoever would listen, all of which has resulted in two wars taking more than 10 years with no “victory” in sight…nor intended.

My generation is one contaminated with a malignant narcissism run rampant.

Take a walk with me at my local VA hospital and then again suggest I know nothing of a “Soldier’s code” bright boy!

We can hear the flushing sound from here.

The only real question in the script is who will star in the Bob Roberts/Boris Gromov role when the toilet lid slams down.

RE
RUNS,
R

You are both correct and incorrect. Without the US in the region, children waiting to go to school wouldn’t be subjected to such violence because they wouldn’t be waiting to go to school.

The Afghans will not forgive their neighbors; it isn’t in their way. Instead, they will begrudginly accept whatever peace is offered to them until a means for revenge is within their means.

And, despite your assertion that the US is the root cause of all violence in the region, the fact remains that violence has been an underlying theme in Afghan history since the beginning of recorded time. Instead, the US had the opportunity to give the Afghans a shot at lasting peace and prosperity, and we took it. Unfortunately, we took it blindfolded by political correctness, off-balance from shaky leadership, and into the darkness created by overwhelming ignorance of Afghan culture.

When politics, political correctness, and attention to propper PPE replaced “victory” as our objective, the battle was instantly and wholly lost.

Some Afghans will certainly hate us for what we’ve done; maybe even most of them, depending on how the next few years shake out… but there will also be an abundance of Afghan citizens who remember the US as good-intentioned but inept, as optimistic but impatient.

Much blood has been spilled in this war; we’ve done a disservice to the fallen for letting their sacrifices become in vain.

Razer Ray, first off I’d like to thank you for being brave enough to post a comment. Obviously you’ve never been to Afghanistan, for if you had you would know that ISAF is anything but the “ONLY ROOT CAUSATION of such horrible things”. With this logic you could say “Americans caused 9/11, if we all would have given up our way of life and lived Islamic law those poor “freedom fighters” wouldn’t have had to kill thousands of Americans”. Some things are worth standing up for, though I fear you will never know what those things are.

RJ, It is a sad day when a citizen looks to its countries leaders and say “give me, give me, why can’t you hand me a high paying job?” Once upon a time people made their own way though life. They acquired skills that were pertinent to the market and they literally made there own way. Sadly you are right when you say “where is this country you talk about?” for our nation is slowly losing its patriotism, its sense of unity and hard work. It brakes my heart to hear that you are in our armed forces. You know nothing of the code real Soldiers live by.

Finally, thank you to the author. Though I don’t agree with all of your points, the article was well written and insightful.

Just what else did you expect from these clowns we elected? What have I been writing these years in my posts?

The real insult is when you look at your fellow warriors and realize that we are all alone besides that “lip service” given via those who seek something…like political power.

Time to bring back the draft boys and girls…and remember to make sure all those kids of our elected politicians get to wear a real American military uniform and be subjected to being “called up” during their time of service.

Gutsy call…yea, our marxist pres has big balls…all mean and virile.

Joe Biden’s on point…feel safe? Obama does, that’s for sure…

Now, just where is he? Karzai already has his bug out plans in place…too! Remember, we elected these people…