Kaepernick sits out the anthem

We should take guns away from the vast majority our soldiers in the field.

 

That's because, as usual, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

 

Oh, sure, but he always says it with such conviction.

 

It must be exhausting to be as smart as Alma.

 

At this point in American history, it is nuclear weapons that give us these things. It is a blunt unpleasant truth but those warheads are a modernist miracle.

TBH, I'm not sure a soldier or "the soldiers" were ever directly responsible for any of it - and I'm damn sure that our last decade over the Middle East has nothing to do with it - but at some point I just come across like a pissant.

 

Argument can be made that, since our knuckleheaded support of the mujahideen in the 1980s, it has made things WORSE. Not the military's fault, per se, but Washington's. But still . . .

We remain the world's only nation where "defense" means building as many military bases around the globe as possible.

Sure seems like "offense" to me (and others).

 

No, we shouldn't. People are trying to kill them every day.

We should take the vast majority of our soldiers out of wherever they are, though. For, as we can see, all those efforts over a decade of time in the Middle East more or less created a power vacuum that stirred up regional angst and partially begat ISIS.

 

It's all a ruse to get our soccer players raised and trained in Germany.

 

I've never understood this argument that the support of the mujahideen was a direct cause of the rise of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. The Soviets left in 1989, the government fell in 1992 and it wasn't until 1996 that the Taliban took power. There were a lot of groups fighting for control. What about the American involvement put the Taliban ahead of the others? There are so many other actors like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and other events like Bosnia and the Chechen wars that helped create and bring to power the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.

 

Been meaning to read the book because the Vanity Fair excerpt was incredible and some of the stats were amazing, about, say, Israeli soldiers' PTSD rates -- which is almost nonexistent.

He said this in an NPR interview:

And the Vanity Fair excerpt:
How PTSD Became a Problem Far Beyond the Battlefield

 

Did you know that in the Revolutionary War, where we first achieved our freedom, many of the soldiers and officers had not been paid in years and were ready to mutiny -- and some had. Washington hanged a bunch of them to get everyone on line.

So you could also look at it as from the start, we treated out soldiers like crap but most did the job anyway.

 

So we can blame soccer? Or has our foreign policy become orange slices for everyone?