Ed Brunner
New member
The Clinton Administration has been roundly critized for dissipating our military forces by cutting funding and sending them world wide as peacekeepers and tour guides and denying them support when things get hot. He should have to face the music for all the lives he spent so irresponsibly.
My point is that all of these unnecessary deployments eat away at troop morale and effectiveness. A friend of mine left the Army after 18 1/2 years. He said he had been to war seven times and not once to defend THIS country.
A Russian whom I used to know said early on that sending Russian troops to Afghanistan would be the end of the Soviet Union. A soldier himself, he said the Russian soldier would shed his blood all at once or one drop at a time to defend Mother Russia but the people would not tolerate Russian blood being shed outside Russia.
I see our military being wasted. I see what Pete Seeger meant when he said "the worst of men must fight and the best of men must die"...
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You have to be there when it's all over. Otherwise you can't say "I told you so."
Better days to be,
Ed
My point is that all of these unnecessary deployments eat away at troop morale and effectiveness. A friend of mine left the Army after 18 1/2 years. He said he had been to war seven times and not once to defend THIS country.
A Russian whom I used to know said early on that sending Russian troops to Afghanistan would be the end of the Soviet Union. A soldier himself, he said the Russian soldier would shed his blood all at once or one drop at a time to defend Mother Russia but the people would not tolerate Russian blood being shed outside Russia.
I see our military being wasted. I see what Pete Seeger meant when he said "the worst of men must fight and the best of men must die"...
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You have to be there when it's all over. Otherwise you can't say "I told you so."
Better days to be,
Ed