Reply #45: No offense taken at all. [View All]

Our military HAS been involved in a lot of atrocities. I'm sure they happen with great frequency. And our soldiers who forced to fight in an unwinbable war must be horror stricken when they realize they have killed little children and babies in Afghanistan. Many are so overcome by guilt they kill themselves. Suicide rates keep rising as the futility of this war lingers on. I couldn't imagine living if I killed a child. But military leaders keep sending our soldiers to do the impossible in a no-win situation.

If we stayed in Afghanistan for another hundred years it would all resort back to the pre-war days as soon as our last soldier left that country. Everything we are doing there is for absolutely nothing, except to profit weapons makers and other war profiteers. I've always wondered why corporations are not forced to 'sacrifice' by not accepting any profits during wartime. Why isn't there a law mandating that NO business should be allowed to profit off of any war? And if they violate that law every executive in that business would be thrown in prison for twenty years if they profited off our war dead.

Thanks for your appreciation for my service to my country. It's strange but it seems our military would be better utilized right here in the US fighting against the real enemies of the American people, like corrupt businesses and corrupt politicians who are nothing but prostitutes to their corporate pimps. We had no threat from Iraq. We had no threat from Afghanistan. Those countries couldn't have attacked the US. It is idiotic to fight a non-conventional enemy with a conventional military. We couldn't win in Vietnam and we won't win in Afghanistan.

We should have used a small covert force and increased our on-the-ground intelligence to fight Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. The way we are fighting that war is reckless and stupid. Imagine a foreign military occupying the US and blowing up entire towns to get one guilty person. Americans would strike back at any occupying force and hate them for killing their families. You don't win the hearts and minds of people by killing their loved ones. I've never heard one person in the media or the government make this analogy. But not one person in the media or government even asked the question, "How could Iraq or Afghanistan even attack the United States?".

There are undoubtedly more members of Al Qaeda in the US than in Afghanistan so does that mean we are going to attack our own cities, or will we do it the right way, as a police action using intelligence, rather than hundreds of thousands of our soldiers killing anyone who might 'look' like a terrorist?