Voices of Dissent

Retired USAF Lieutenant Colonel:

“To recall a related fairy tale, Washington enjoys conjuring the genie, and is later unwilling and unable to put the genie back in the bottle. Vietnam, Central America, Yugoslavia, Iraq I and II, Afghanistan, and Ukraine – in every case Americans woke up to the fact their government lied, created the problem, never had a plan to resolve the problem…”

Can Trump Control the Golems?

By Karen Kwiatkowski

March 21, 2025

Tulsi Gabbard – Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army

Retired USAF Lieutenant Colonel:

I’m Already Against the Next War

W.J. Astore

Reflections on Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan

“We’re always told versions of the same lie: We need to fight them over there so that we don’t have to fight them here. Communism had to be rolled back in Vietnam else commies would be landing in Manhattan. Iraq had to be pummeled and Saddam overthrown before WMD landed in Boston. Afghanistan had to be pacified and modernized before the Taliban enforced conservative Sharia law in Biloxi.”

“None of this was true. The United States would have been perfectly safe without committing any troops to Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. In fact, the U.S. would have been far better off if those wars had never been fought.”

The Oak Bay Starfish Take – US Armed Forces Recruiting Crisis

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- no rehab/prep program required.

Why are these people not showing up at the recruiting office?

Any questions from newspeople?

Currently serving four-star officers and high level DOD civilians brought us a US Armed Forces recruiting crisis.

Thousands of American families have now had a loved one who did one or more tours in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Will they support new enlistments?

Decades after the lessons of Vietnam, it feels like the people who run the Pentagon specialize in undeclared/unwon wars.

Understandable why young people and their parents and grandparents would take a dim view on all this.

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.

Flag officers and high level DOD civilians built careers made of undeclared/unwon wars. Now they must mastermind ways to recruit a new generation.

In past decades, people could do time in uniform, then return to the US with a feeling that they were living in the best country on the planet.

Standards have deteriorated. Today, the troops return to an ongoing breakdown of society.

In recent years The Troops have been sent to places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa and Syria. All this to keep a post 911 USA safe & secure.

Back home, drug addicts are camping on the sidewalk.

Comments posted with this KOMO News article explain what is going on now.

A giant/$51.6 billion (every 12 months) US Dept. of Homeland Security with more than two decades of experience and lessons learned fails to keep cartel product from arriving in all 50 states.

American Families

Will you question the idea that sending troops to Iraq was essential to keep terrorists away, but somehow, cartel drugs are able to show up in all 50 states?

Cartels move product into all 50 states:

DEA High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas:

“…HIDTA-designated counties are located in 50 states…”

For Your Freedoms?

Another of many examples where American freedoms may come & go-completely unrelated to military operations/US Troops in distant lands, or the Sound of Freedom over Coupeville:

Bill requiring permits for gun purchases passes WA State House on party-line vote

By MyNorthwest.com Staff

Mar 9, 2025

Also:

Judge strikes down Washington’s natural gas initiative, citing constitutional violation

by KOMO News Staff

March 22nd 2025

KOMO allows comments. Several comments are posted with the story above.

The Show Must Go On

A big Homeland Security/made for TV show of force at the Super Bowl each year. Staged by the same people who fail to keep cartel product from showing up in Hometown, USA.

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: