Commissar SFLUFAN Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 As excerpted from the book The Fighters More than three million Americans have served in uniform in these wars. Nearly 7,000 of them have died. Tens of thousands more have been wounded. More are killed or wounded each year, in smaller numbers but often in dreary circumstances...On one matter there can be no argument: The policies that sent these men and women abroad, with their emphasis on military action and their visions of reordering nations and cultures, have not succeeded. It is beyond honest dispute that the wars did not achieve what their organizers promised, no matter the party in power or the generals in command. Astonishingly expensive, strategically incoherent, sold by a shifting slate of senior officers and politicians and editorial-page hawks, the wars have continued in varied forms and under different rationales each and every year since passenger jets struck the World Trade Center in 2001. They continue today without an end in sight, reauthorized in Pentagon budgets almost as if distant war is a presumed government action. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 Maybe Rumsfeld and Cheney were from the future and knew that the wars were a mistake, but needed an excuse to get the American military ready to fight again for the coming war against the machines and/or aliens. Kind of like how the Napoleonic Wars turned the British army into an experienced fighting force so that they could come burn down the White House with ease. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 5 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: Maybe Rumsfeld and Cheney were from the future and knew that the wars were a mistake, but needed an excuse to get the American military ready to fight again for the coming war against the machines and/or aliens. Kind of like how the Napoleonic Wars turned the British army into an experienced fighting force so that they could come burn down the White House with ease. According to Trump, that was Canada, not the UK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 1 minute ago, Greatoneshere said: According to Trump, that was Canada, not the UK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 Just now, CitizenVectron said: According to Trump, the UK, Great Britain, Britain, and England are all the same thing. Also Ireland is part of the UK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 1 hour ago, Greatoneshere said: Also Ireland is part of the UK. But isn't it, really, deep down inside? Spoiler 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSoxFan9 Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 If they were from the future and knew Iraq would be a disaster, they would have skipped Iraq and invaded Iran instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 I've got the book preordered, I look forward to sitting down with it next week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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