NATO – Newspeople refuse to ask:

Newspeople refuse to ask:

What happens when American families no longer send the young ones to enlist and will not support a draft?

In the news:

July 8, 2024 – Associated Press

NATO leaders are descending on Washington. Here’s what to know

The Oak Bay Starfish take:

Decades of undeclared/unwon DOD wars is now the norm. Look and see if the new military aid packages create any wave of enthusiasm to sign up.

Some may say it is time to bring back a draft.

They tried that during the Vietnam War. They found out they had to stop.

Last time there was a draft, children were raised by the WWII generation, in families where Mom and Dad were married to each other.

Both major US political parties may be forced to downsize their ambitions for various overseas military operations. Things are slow over at the recruiting office.

Prediction:

The breaking point will come at the US Armed Forces recruiting office.

Breaking Point Will Come At The US Armed Forces Recruiting Office

There is no WWII generation to encourage new enlistments like there was back in the Cold War era of the 1980s.

A Fighting Spirit?

Sending The Troops to Iraq to keep the US safe – Now this:

A $51.6 billion (every 12 months) US Dept. of Homeland Security.

Twenty years of big US Dept. of Homeland Security spending and more cartel product in Hometown, USA than ever before? What a scam.

Welcome Home Troops

Thanks for doing time/risking your ass in Iraq and Afghanistan, working to keep a post 911 USA safe & secure.

Don’t worry-The Super Bowl and public affairs will be safe:

Newspeople avoid these questions:

Would the DEA be out of work if a $51.6 billion (every 12 months) US Dept. of Homeland Security was able to keep cartel product from showing up in all 50 states?

Have opioid lawsuits played any role in improving the situation?

How do cartels react to opioid lawsuits?

Has local CBP created any shortage of cartel product in the Puget Sound area?

Homeland Security Is A Scam

For Your Freedoms

Elected officials and high level DOD civilians will speak of the US Armed Forces as if they function as some sort of giant civil rights organization.

CNN Nov 11, 2023

Biden honors Americans who ‘stood on the front lines of freedom’ in Veterans Day remarks

Sorry, no newspeople available to ask:

Mr President,

Going back to the 1990 Operation Desert Shield,

How would American freedoms today be any different if US troops were never sent to Iraq?

Uncle Sam is having a hell of a time finding people to sign up for the US Armed Forces. Pretending that decades of undeclared/unwon wars are linked in any way with American freedoms is the kind of dishonesty that will snuff out the energy American families once had for encouraging young people to enlist.

Good luck with your US Armed Forces recruiting crisis.

As time goes on, American freedoms and the consumer choices we have are becoming more restricted by a combination of government and big business policies, not Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden or the next bad guy DOD will be going after in distant lands.

If The Troops defend American rights and freedoms, what becomes of those freedoms when the US leaves Syria, Lebanon, Somalia, Vietnam, Afghanistan, etc., without a victory?

President Biden,

While the troops were deployed, federal law was signed prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to adults age 18-20.

Can you help us to understand the militarized version of freedom here?

December 21st 2019 KOMO News

Legal age to buy cigarettes, vapes raised to 21 nationwide

“Signed into law by President Donald Trump Friday as part of the new $1.4 trillion spending bill, a new measure prohibits the sale of tobacco products to anyone under the age of 21.”

The day I graduated from high school, all 50 states could set their own minimum drinking age.

In 2024, after decades of military operations for your freedoms:

18-20 year old adults may not stop off at the mini-mart and legally purchase a six pack of beer.

National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984