08-16-2021, 01:24 PM
(08-16-2021, 01:18 PM)CKwi88 Wrote: All Gold Star families, and frankly anyone who served over the past 20 years deserve to be enraged. But that rage needs to be directed at our government's philosophies and actions as a whole. It's one thing to hear media talking heads talking about how the past 20+ years of war have been a waste of time, money and resources. This fiasco of a withdrawal is a tacit admission by our government and military that all that money was spent for nothing, all the time apart was for nothing, and all those lives lost were for nothing. There was no good outcome here, for anyone. But as long as we were there these people could hold on to the belief that sustainable good was being done. Now it's all come crashing down and there is little doubt that it was all in vain.
That's the blowback when war is being marketed to people like it is some sort of sporting event. We're gonna go in there and win because we are right and god is with us and we're the best and the most powerful and so on and so forth. Politicians and pundits make bank and win the day by convincing people stuff like this is simple and right and black and white and there is nothing to it.