I believe that if we aren't taking the fight to the bad guys, then it will be IED's in our streets and our people catching stray shrapnel. On top of that, there would also be nothing to stop them from hurting their own people.
So we should be over there until the bad guys are dead or shackled.
There will always be people who want to kill other people. The "War on Terror" isn't a war, because wars end. It's a slow bleed, and the US will never kill or arrest every bad person.
Every terrorist in the dirt is at least one innocent person who gets to sleep a bit easier.
Just because the fight won't end doesn't mean we should stop fighting.
What if every police officer, EMT, and scientist rolled over just because the job would never end? Same goes for warfighters. It wouldn't be good, and would only leave the world worse off than before.
He gets it.
Trouble is, is that he's only one of two out of one hundred that do.
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People look at the US budget pie chart and point at the defense and education pieces and shout, "There's your problem."
It is, to be sure.
A bigger problem however, is the disparity between the defense budget and the VA budget. You mean to tell me that you're going to send us over, but not take care of us when we get back? Even if we are psychologically and physically maimed?
Fucking hypocrites. Everyone of them.
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Even the alleged care that is doled out is buried so deeply behind a bureaucratic process that most that need it give up.
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Thank goodness that there are civilian non profit institutions like the Wounded Warrior Project in place, but the fact that they need to exist should be a god damned embarrassment to the leadership.
My father served during the Vietnam conflict. When seeking treatment last year he had to endure so much bullshit that he gave up and just paid at a general practitioner's office. My brother-in-law sustained an injury in the Navy. His knee needed extensive repairs that he had to wait 6 months for surgery. The stories of inept appointees getting jobs that they cannot handle and of insufficient numbers of doctors are true.
Not having the funds to take care of the survivors is not justification for not having an army. There will still be wars that need to be fought regardless.
I suppose it would be more accurate to say that its more important to send people to war than to be able to take care of them afterwards.
I'm not a big fan of war, and I'm not against Veterans Affairs, but that quote is bullshit.
So we should be over there until the bad guys are dead or shackled.
Just because the fight won't end doesn't mean we should stop fighting.
What if every police officer, EMT, and scientist rolled over just because the job would never end? Same goes for warfighters. It wouldn't be good, and would only leave the world worse off than before.
Trouble is, is that he's only one of two out of one hundred that do.
.
People look at the US budget pie chart and point at the defense and education pieces and shout, "There's your problem."
It is, to be sure.
A bigger problem however, is the disparity between the defense budget and the VA budget. You mean to tell me that you're going to send us over, but not take care of us when we get back? Even if we are psychologically and physically maimed?
Fucking hypocrites. Everyone of them.
.
Even the alleged care that is doled out is buried so deeply behind a bureaucratic process that most that need it give up.
.
Thank goodness that there are civilian non profit institutions like the Wounded Warrior Project in place, but the fact that they need to exist should be a god damned embarrassment to the leadership.
I suppose it would be more accurate to say that its more important to send people to war than to be able to take care of them afterwards.
I'm not a big fan of war, and I'm not against Veterans Affairs, but that quote is bullshit.
I don't like it, but I get it.