The Damage From Biden’s Afghanistan
Fiasco Runs Deep: Reflections Of A Combat Vet
The Blue State Conservative,
by
David Zeckser
Original Article
Posted By: AmericaFirstAlways,
10/7/2021 8:58:31 AM
We vets are hurting, as if we had been punched in the gut. Our disappointment is beyond description. Our brand, the pride, the image and “es-prit de Corps” we had earned on the world stage since 1945 has been shamefully squandered by the deceitful actions taken in Afghanistan by the Biden Administration.
Generation after generation serving in our Armed Forces have built on the successes of those before them. So much so, that the image and strength of our military is the sum of the contributions of our active-duty personnel and veterans. So, we have skin in the game.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
dst4life 10/7/2021 9:39:53 AM (No. 937856)
How far we have fallen!! I joined the Army under the Reagan administration. In basic training and while doing arms training, our rallying cry was "Kill the commie!" When we were in-processing, we sang, "God bless the USA."
I don't recognize this country anymore.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
red1066 10/7/2021 10:00:14 AM (No. 937877)
Boy am I glad my dad and every other adult from the WWII generation isn't around to see this. A friend of our family( we kids called him uncle) fought in the pacific during WWII. Up until his death, he made a yearly visit to Pearl Harbor. Over forty five years after that attack, he still hated the Japanese. I still see the look on his face when I drove up in a Japanese car.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Gordon Freeman 10/7/2021 10:02:50 AM (No. 937882)
And once again and again the liberals, democrats and/or commies take a big dump on the military. It's what they do.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MDConservative 10/7/2021 10:24:10 AM (No. 937912)
First off, thank you for your service.
Maj. (Ret) Zeckser, you took the king's shilling voluntarily. From there you do as you're told. You are a professional soldier, whose first duty is to follow orders. Your primary task is to kill people and destroy things in our national interest, not nation build or perform social work. But then, that's not real world these days.
The military today is exactly what the "all volunteer army" was supposed to become when proposed post-Vietnam. No more 19-year old cannon fodder draftees. No more complaining about involuntary servitude and interjection into wars. An added attraction for the Left was that there would be families involved, grieving widows surrounded by crying children for the world to see if another war arose like Vietnam. They would make hardhitting propaganda. More tail and less tooth.
We have not "built on the successes of those (in the armed forces) before them." The plain truth is we don't fight to victory anymore. We pull our punches. And then we bungle the result. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq (2x), Afghanistan... We fight for democracy, like in Kuwait. Worse, today we have top brass effectively refusing civilian control of our military. We have retired flag officers serving as Secretary of Defense. We have the usual cast of feckless political military leaders, still making careers out of Desert Storm and post-911 heroics, refusing any responsibility for a withdrawal they should have planned and executed. We have whole DOD intel operations working against the people (and even leaders) of the US "for our security". That's today's military.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Geoman 10/7/2021 6:07:20 PM (No. 938312)
FTA: "Our brand, the pride, the image and “es-prit de Corps” we had earned on the world stage since 1945 has been shamefully squandered by the deceitful actions taken in Afghanistan by the Biden Administration."
It would seem to me that 1945 was the apogee of our military's brand, pride, and esprit de Corps. It has surged up and down since 1945 but has mostly trended downward. Now Biden has it below well below sea level. Our military circa 1945 was certainly in it to win it, and that they did.
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God bless our veterans!