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C3.Command.Control.Coffee's avatar

It’s a catastrophe that we seem to have burned up our collective will, morality? And energy on bad wars in MENA, and now, provided the best justification for war since WW2 our response to Russian genocidal expansion has been anemic at best.

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Victor Ellis's avatar

Tony my dad also passed away in 2019: complications from Parkinson’s, a result of Agent Orange exposure during his 2 tours in Vietnam. We didn’t really talk about it until I was getting ready to deploy for OEF/OIF, but many of the points you make were part of our conversations over the subsequent decade. I wonder what he would’ve thought about our ignominious Afghanistan exit. I still think about it a lot. And it reminds me of something Nate Fick said when refusing to send a night patrol out into early OIF Baghdad chaos:

“I’m supposed to be more aggressive. For what? So I can come home with 21 guys instead of 22? For what?”

I did my duty. Missed out on over 3 years of my young daughters’ lives. And yet today I look at Afghanistan and the USA and say:

“For what? For what?”

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