Churchill's Ghost
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Below is what I posted in the Harry & Meghan thread. I dedicated almost 30 years of my life to defending my country - my husband dedicated 28. Our families have both served as long as we have been in this country. Every war of the 20th century (including Panama and Grenada) He even had a great-great uncle who came from Ireland simply to serve in the Civil War. Our boys and some of our nephews are still serving. We personally know many of the people at the Department of Defense (I actually worked for Secretary Austin back when he was a major and again when he was a 4-star - I have lost all respect for him over the past 7 months) For the first time in my adult life, I am frightened for my country because we have leaders who won't stand up for us and our values. I didn't necessarily like Trump as a person, but he was a leader and our enemies recognized that he would always put us and our allies first. I don't need to like my politicians but I need them to like and respect "we the people" A high-ranking Soviet official said of Ronald Reagan (paraphrasing) "He was a little bit crazy and reckless, so we never knew how he would react, so we tried not to provoke him" The Taliban felt the same about Trump...hell, Biden admitted yesterday that they only started marching and attacking us in the past couple of months....hmmmmm, what changed?
Biden was NEVER a nice guy. He was NEVER a smart guy. He has been on the wrong side of every single foreign policy position for 51 years. I'm old enough to remember when he had to drop out of the 1988 Presidential race for lying and plagiarism. He and his family are as corrupt as the day is long. He is the very definition of a swamp rat. Add a healthy dose of dementia on top of this already vile person. And we are only 7 months in, God help us.
From the Harry & Meghan Thread:
"I have been sick watching this - I was stationed in Kabul and spent a lot of time in Bagram. We should have secured the embassy, never abandoned Bagram (which is much larger and easier to secure than Kabul Airport). It should have been civilians, equipment, then military personnel leave last. We managed to keep the Taliban quiet with 2,500 troops on the ground - we could have easily kept that number in place while evacuating everything. The moment that the Taliban started moving, a few well-placed airstrikes would have stopped them. We never should have pulled the close air support from the Afghan Army, nor should we have cut off the maintenance contractors (for every hour an aircraft is flown, it requires many hours of maintenance).
In typical military gallows humor, we know that all of these vehicles will be deadlined (non-mission capable) in a few weeks. However, the technology is now in the hands of our enemies.
Our interpreter and his family came over several years ago, thank goodness, but there are so many Afghans that I met during the course of my tour. I especially think of the women I met who had started businesses and were so hopeful for the future. All gone now. It's an awful, helpless feeling watching this going down the drain and not being able to do something (even worse for the guys on the ground who are not being allowed to run rescue missions) My husband works for the Marine Corps and we know some of the men who are over there right now and are waiting for the casualty list to be released. We have 4 sons and 3 nephews still in the military too (of those 7, 5 have done tours either in Afghanistan or Iraq - believe me, it is 1,000,000% easier to go yourself than to send your child - my husband and I have 7 tours between us--some short, some long)
Biden was NEVER a nice guy. He was NEVER a smart guy. He has been on the wrong side of every single foreign policy position for 51 years. I'm old enough to remember when he had to drop out of the 1988 Presidential race for lying and plagiarism. He and his family are as corrupt as the day is long. He is the very definition of a swamp rat. Add a healthy dose of dementia on top of this already vile person. And we are only 7 months in, God help us.
From the Harry & Meghan Thread:
"I have been sick watching this - I was stationed in Kabul and spent a lot of time in Bagram. We should have secured the embassy, never abandoned Bagram (which is much larger and easier to secure than Kabul Airport). It should have been civilians, equipment, then military personnel leave last. We managed to keep the Taliban quiet with 2,500 troops on the ground - we could have easily kept that number in place while evacuating everything. The moment that the Taliban started moving, a few well-placed airstrikes would have stopped them. We never should have pulled the close air support from the Afghan Army, nor should we have cut off the maintenance contractors (for every hour an aircraft is flown, it requires many hours of maintenance).
In typical military gallows humor, we know that all of these vehicles will be deadlined (non-mission capable) in a few weeks. However, the technology is now in the hands of our enemies.
Our interpreter and his family came over several years ago, thank goodness, but there are so many Afghans that I met during the course of my tour. I especially think of the women I met who had started businesses and were so hopeful for the future. All gone now. It's an awful, helpless feeling watching this going down the drain and not being able to do something (even worse for the guys on the ground who are not being allowed to run rescue missions) My husband works for the Marine Corps and we know some of the men who are over there right now and are waiting for the casualty list to be released. We have 4 sons and 3 nephews still in the military too (of those 7, 5 have done tours either in Afghanistan or Iraq - believe me, it is 1,000,000% easier to go yourself than to send your child - my husband and I have 7 tours between us--some short, some long)
