The US should maintain strong and ready military forces.
The mainstream media will bring on people who promote the US Armed Forces. They are not about to look at why the promoters have failed.
Alternative media update:
Decades after the lessons of Vietnam, the Pentagon seems to specialize in undeclared/unwon wars.
Understandable why young people & their parents & grandparents would take a dim view on all this.
Some will say obese teens and young adults are to blame for the big recruiting crisis.
Thousands of young, intelligent and athletic Americans participate in college athletics each year. Certainly, they would qualify to enlist.
US press plays along by not asking questions.
If DOD was an NFL team, sports talk radio would feature comments like:
The Dept. of Defense was nowhere to be found on 911. We haven’t won a war since.
Any college or pro football coach would have been fired a dozen times over for what DOD has done with the US Armed Forces during the fake GWOT era.
During the Vietnam War, US troops were sent to Vietnam.
Today, the Ohio National Guard is sent to “support Operation Spartan Shield and Operation Inherent Resolve.”
The US press has a long history of not asking questions Re: undeclared/unwon DOD wars and military operations for your freedoms.
Elected officials, newspeople, sports announcers and high level DOD civilians speak of the US Armed Forces as if they function as some sort of giant civil rights organization.
The idea that the US Armed Forces are sent to distant lands to defend American rights and freedoms is repeated many times over.
The reality is that American freedoms may come and go and appear to be completely unrelated to military operations/US Troops in distant lands, or the Sound of Freedom.
Freedom?
Both major parties are OK with federal prohibition of alcohol and tobacco for adults age 18-20.
No such thing the day I graduated from high school.
That was before decades of military operations for your freedoms.
Recruiting Crisis/Reality Check
Thousands of American families have had a loved one in the regular or reserve US Armed Forces who did one or more tours in Iraq or Afghanistan. National Guard too.
If we can just get the veterans, parents and grandparents of the USA to recommend an enlistment to the young family members in their life, things will be looking up.
Some Americans may be asking:
Did the advantage of US air power allow the undeclared wars in Iraq or Afghanistan to be prevented, won or shut down?
US jet aircraft have been able to strike targets in what wars won by the US?
Currently serving four-star officers and high level DOD civilians have been associated with what wars won by the US?
Has dressing women to look like men had any positive or negative impact on recruiting?
There has been a big stir over a blocked senior military promotion system. TV newspeople will avoid interviewing people who offer up a voice of dissent. Stalling the administrative steps to promote top level officers might lead to what? Decades of undeclared/unwon wars? A giant Dept. of Defense that was nowhere to be found on 911?
Why would high level promotions be awarded to people who are part of the system that allowed The Troops to live in the barracks described below?
Sept 25, 2023 MOAA
Military Barracks Blasted Over Horrid Living Conditions, Lack of Accountability
2024
Ask any supporters of any political party if they are sending young family members down to the US Armed Forces recruiting office to sign up. If people are feeling campaign rally-good about their country, wouldn’t this cross over to supporting new enlistments in the US Armed Forces?
Newspeople play along by not asking questions.
Possibly of interest:
Bracing Views – December 29, 2024
W.J. Astore
Well, Maybe Not
“I wonder why people don’t trust the government?”
“Of course, the Pentagon knew all along that it had 2000 or so troops in Syria. They simply lied to us, full stop.”
“Will anyone be called on the carpet and punished for this lie? Of course not. When you lie for the government, you get promoted.”
Related:
Iraq – Desert Shield To Present Update:
Your grand daddy’s gas can. Not legal to purchase a new one over at the 2024 hardware store.
The freedom talk is just for federal holidays and overseas military operations:
Freedom to purchase an old gas can
Goodbye Free Enterprise System – Banning Gas Powered Equipment
Consumer Demand Or Government Demand?
Hostile Forces in Distant Lands
Goodbye Free Enterprise System
Freedom Comes And Goes – Joint Chiefs of Staff Play No Part
Most And Least Meaningful Federal Holidays
The country struggles with:
Possibly of interest:
Podcast 9 Defending The Constitution?
How Do The Troops Defend The Constitution?
Not asking about the oath of enlistment. Asking about what happens after the oath has been taken.
Love to see newspeople interview elected officials and let us know how sending US Troops to Syria, Lebanon, Somalia, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, etc., is somehow defending the constitution.
Look for newspeople and school teachers to ask zero questions in these areas.
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Something from the last century