Wars, Occupations and other unsavory things

[unhappycamper]

(I really don't like this fuckwad.)


I know the military is getting antsy about the bucks to buy more toys. They are lamenting the fact that We The People want to spend more money on We The People and less on the killing business. $6 billion dollar submarines are now on the drawing boards. The keel was laid for an $11.5 billion dollar Ford-class aircraft carrier. We're still pissing around with the rather useless $239 million dollar F-35 AND we've bought a $250,000 helmet for the F-35 pilot to use. Current airplanes are being worn out. And they are expensive. We're shooting $466,000 missiles that don't work off a $500+ million LCS. Talk about pissing money away.

Afghanistan's problems of not having (or being able to train) adequate numbers of cops or troops to replace the mighty million-dollar-a-year soldiers we have in Afghanistan is now visible to those who can see what that means. Vietnamization Afghanization is not working. The poppy harvest is kicking into season and the United States military just walks on by. Russia is pissed at us for their drug problem. The CIA on the other hand, is happy to have a source of off-the-books income. And we pay one million dollars a year per soldier on the ground and $400 for one gallon of delivered gas in Afghanistan.

We still have 100,000 American troops in Iraq. What's that about? I thought the Mission (was) Accomplished in 2003 when Capt'n Codpiece landed on the deck of good old Abe Lincoln. And here we are starting the eighth year of that war occupation. With 100,000 boots on the ground. Does anybody see anything wrong with this picture?

In addition to the three trillion dollars 'lost' by the Puzzle Palace, we are now funneling a trillion (that's a 1 followed by twelve zeros -> 1,000,000,000,000) dollars a year to keep the Empire 'safe' 'sound' 'growing' around. The United States is one of the most feared (that's correct, feared) nations on the earth. And who can blame them? We invade them, drone them, and special forces them to an early grave. Women and kids included.

This is not the America I grew up in. I grew up in the midwest and went into the Army in 1963. Did tours in Turkey, Vietnam, Vietnam and Germany. Lest you think I'm speaking from keyboard experience, I was in Vietnam for Tet of 68. I was in the invasion of Cambodia in 1970. I know what war can do to people. From where I sit, nothing good.

PTSD, TBI, homelessness, prosthetics and no jobs await our veterans. The United States has managed to fuck up another generation. So, what are we getting for that trillion dollars a year?

Nobel Peace Prize, my ass.

[rfranklin]

1. My sentiments exactly...

And it is sad to see President Obama continuing the failed policies of aggression that we saw under Bush. But as you say, they get to use up all those expensive armaments, creating a demand for new and more expensive armaments. It certainly is an industry, but not one that I want to be a shareholder in.

[unhappycamper]

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