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There comes a time, it seems, when I just want to chuck all in and to say “the hell with America.” Of course, that would betray everything I have ever stood for or tried to do, but given the state of affairs in the US right now … and the absolute apathy and lack of concern on the part of a nation that seems to be consumed with the concept that they are entitled to whatever they want, regardless of cost … and don’t bother them with the ugly truth that some of our leaders really are dishonest, power-hungry, money-grubbing, budding tyrants who want to impose their will on everybody … regardless of what others may think. It really gets rather sickening, discouraging and disgusting. Now, I suspect that the small group of people who dare to view this, without comment or sharing it, probably are shaking their heads in agreement. Which is fine with me, only it disappoints me that they are unwilling to expose themselves. But then I always was and am, as the patch on my windbreaker says: a member of Freedom’s Guardians, as was every other soldier who wore an Army uniform in the Continental United States (Freddy, the Eagle, on the patch is the symbol of U.S. Army Forces Command, which commands all the Army forces in the CONUS. All the active military people, and most of the veterans, are members, if they choose so, of the corps of Freedom’s Guardians.
Having vented now, I will give you tonight’s version of Random Thoughts.
This article, which appeared in this month's Legion Magazine, really nails a truth ... a truth that I have seen basically all my life, except for Operation Just Cause, Grenada, and Persian Gulf I (ODS/DS). America no longer has the willingness or the commitment to engage in a war to win. We want to win-lite with surgical air strikes, drones, special operations raids, but nothing that requires the politicians to put it all on the line and convince the American people that if we are going to send our service members into combat, then we are going to adhere to the Weinberger and Powell Doctrines. No, like just about everything else in America today, that requires a commitment that Americans are just unwilling to make. It would disrupt their comfortable lives.
Granted, the author has a point ... but then the Democrats on the Committee were acting as Clinton's defense team ... not unexpected ... and rather than questioning her, they were attacking their opponents across the aisle as loudly and vehemently as they could ... still, it is sad, that the other person at a hearing in New York is going to see the wheels of just grind so slowly that it won't even come to trial for another year and half ... one wonders where the justice in either case was yesterday.
Interesting article about all that has gone wrong in the Middle East ... I am not sure all its assumptions are valid ... but that is neither here nor there ... what is true, is that American policy makers, as well as all the outside policy makers, really haven't a clue what to do
A whole lot of truth in this article ... which is part of the reason I am so disgusted with my fellow Americans these days.
Is it just me, or does this not appear to be a liberal assault on capital punishment? Nah, wouldn't happen ... not in this administration.
Wonder where the money went ... well the Government Accountability Office would like to know as well ... but it seems the answers and the accounting to support those answers is slow in coming.
Now, if this came as any surprise to anyone ... pox on you ... because it shouldn't. Sorry, but the DOJ has become so compromised under this administration that I doubt very seriously that any administration office would be prosecuted for so much as a parking ticket, much less violations of the Hatch Act.
I really am waiting for the UN to say the Russians should be investigated for war crimes ... oh, you say, that is not going to happen? Well, I ain't going there because the anti-American bias really disgusts me so much ... I just want to say to hell with it all.
This article's headline is about winning the peace in Mesopotamia ... well, folks, for the reasons pointed out in the article ... there will be no peace in the Mesopotamia, the Middle East, and probably a lot of other places around the globe ... so get used to it and prepare.
This article points out a very significant truth ... the next war is not going to be like the last one ... and unfortunately, for one leg of the military triad of air-land-sea forces ... strategies have been overcome by tactics ... and that is a serious deficit in the use of the military, which remains – after all - a blunt instrument, regardless how precise its weapons are.
Good questions to consider when looking at the Army of the future ... but again, it avoids the questions about what strategic vision fits the Army in.
Vetoing the Defense authorizations bill is all about politics and funding domestic programs and not about defense. Now, is that a sad commentary on the state of our governance these days or not.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, apparently according to the GAO, continues to be a fiscal train wreck ... why am I no surprised.
Well, in my humble opinion ... the intelligence community does the best it knows how to do with the resources it is given ... is that going to be perfect? Never. Is it going to be wrong sometimes? Definitely. But it is about a good as a group of humans can get it.
This commentary from Commentary Magazine succinctly sums up why I am so disgusted with Americans today ... the fact that they accept it all with total disinterest and apathy.
Unfortunately, Mr. Tobin is correct in his assessment here ... but like in the United States, there is a double standard when it comes to reporting the Palestinian/Arab.v.Israeli conflict.
One hopes this trend can be arrested. However, the level of literacy in the US also is falling ... and that is sad.
Please note when you read these stories about Hurricane Patricia being the most powerful hurricane on record ... that a) that the record is only 135 years long ... and b) I suspect that some typhoons and cyclones have been as or more powerful.
It is interesting that the FCC chief did not make this announcement before or immediately after Hillary Clinton appeared on the Saturday Night Live comedy show. Only when Trump announced that he would be appearing on the same show ... bias here, anyone? Effort to keep him off the program ... no, if it was ok for Hillary then the 3 or so minutes should be ok for the Donald.
I read in the WaPo that our esteemed president is throwing a temper tantrum over the Defense Authorization bill ... look at the other bills he vetoed ... I really am tired of him already even.
Iran is going to get its ballistic missiles, and they will be nuke capable and Iran will get is bomb ... face that reality folks.
Another good man bites the dust ... unfortunately, for a failed foreign policy that has no strategic focus ... much less the explicit approval of the American people through its representatives ... which should have happened, but never will with this president.
I guess some Italians just don't like paying tourists ... I wonder how much those same people like the unpaying kind coming out across from Libya
A progressive view that the Republicans are going to self-destruct ... which probably is true ... but the question is whether this portrayal of non-progressives is correct.
Interesting poll result, given the unceasing campaign to demonize the NRA
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