Not really, I made my peace with being disposable a long time ago, I may have been stupid and idealistic the first time out but I reenlisted with eyes wide open. The problem is not getting sold out, it is getting sold out for so little. The betrayal was in expecting there to be an end goal and caring more about the outcome than our leaders apparently do.
If this war was about oil, why haven't we secured the oil fields?
If this war was about terrorism, why are we sitting on our thumbs? Can you imagine Cameron or Obama declaring "Haynes alive! or Mosa dead! (http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/perdicaris.html)" and meaning it? I know I can't.
Please tell me how the current situation serves our national interests. Is there any end being served beyond blood and chaos?
As I said before, there is a dark shitty part of me that wonders if the certain people in the government and the media WANT Iraq to fall to ISIS. If it falls their predictions of doom will be vindicated and they'll be able to pat each other on the back for being so much smarter and morally enlightened than the average voter. A stable Iraq, following a South Korean or post war German model would afford no such opportunity.
After all, why would anyone in the DNC give a shit about dead brown people in a far away place or about a bunch of ignorant rednecks and house-niggers who were probably gonna vote republican anyway? There are elections to be won.
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Date: 3/9/14 17:57 (UTC)Not really, I made my peace with being disposable a long time ago, I may have been stupid and idealistic the first time out but I reenlisted with eyes wide open. The problem is not getting sold out, it is getting sold out for so little. The betrayal was in expecting there to be an end goal and caring more about the outcome than our leaders apparently do.
If this war was about oil, why haven't we secured the oil fields?
If this war was about terrorism, why are we sitting on our thumbs? Can you imagine Cameron or Obama declaring "Haynes alive! or Mosa dead! (http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/perdicaris.html)" and meaning it? I know I can't.
Please tell me how the current situation serves our national interests. Is there any end being served beyond blood and chaos?
As I said before, there is a dark shitty part of me that wonders if the certain people in the government and the media WANT Iraq to fall to ISIS. If it falls their predictions of doom will be vindicated and they'll be able to pat each other on the back for being so much smarter and morally enlightened than the average voter. A stable Iraq, following a South Korean or post war German model would afford no such opportunity.
After all, why would anyone in the DNC give a shit about dead brown people in a far away place or about a bunch of ignorant rednecks and house-niggers who were probably gonna vote republican anyway? There are elections to be won.