Bro... I do... My cousin did 4 tours in Iraq another is on his 4th in Afghanistan. War is waged by rich, chickenhawk, draft dodgers. It's fought by the poor.
My family has been in every war since ww2 save for the first gulf war. Which happened when I was in fucking high school. I thought it ended with my generation but nope. My wife's nephew is all sorts of fucked up from Afghanistan. He's disabled at 24 or some shit. For what?
It is not right man. Some where we lost our way in what to fight for and what results we should attempt to achieve. When we fight then it should be to kick ass, and nothing other than that. Go to it and get the hell out. Wasting young people on trying to make a better place of some place is beyond your duty as a leader and our right as a country. Going after Ben Laden in Afghanistan was right, trying to improve the place was a goal way too far and an unreasonable request of those that serve as well as unfair to the people that live there. That said though, military service is not all bad for young people. My Navy days were very good for me, but then I don't feel I was unnecessarily exploited. Perhaps used a bit, but overall a positive exchange.
Geez! Full Sad Sack! I think of my days of serving in the US Navy as mostly very positive. A good thing for me to have done. If I had a son that would have been called on to serve in Vietnam, I would have strongly urged him to go to Canada. I had no faith what so ever in Johnson's conjured up war. His Gulf of Tonkin incident was total bullshit openly apparent to me at the time. I was also very proud of our Senator from Oregon that opposed the war. Wayne Morse, I think he was the only Senator to oppose the war. He was a Democrat. But he converted from Republican. I wonder which opposed the war?
