re: Most Veterans Say Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan Not Worth the Cost

fricking Obama.

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Most veterans don’t have the best views concerning national strategy. They only know what they know—a microcosm of the big picture.

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So, like almost every other citizen?

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Most veterans don’t have the best views concerning national strategy. They only know what they know—a microcosm of the big picture.

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while I believe this to be true, and some of the viewpoints expressed aren't exactly coming from MENSA members in good standing, I doubt your post will go over well here

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while I believe this to be true,

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I'm not quite sure what he was saying there. Is he implying that veterans are less intelligent as a group or that non-vets have access to information that vets don't?

Iraq should be divided into 3 states, a Kurdish state to the north (could possible merge with parts of Kurdish Syria), a Sunni State to the south and south west and Shia state to the east and parts of the south also. Maybe the Shiaa state merges with Iran and the Saudis or Jordanians take the Shunni one. Iraq is a just a cesspool of these major sect constantly bombing each other for control over specific regions of the country and the only way it will end is if one side comes out on top and crushes the other two.

Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires, the only way you solve anything there is if you genocide half the country install a military dictatorship for the foreseeable future and somehow stop Pakistan from constantly sending state sponsored terror groups into their neighboring states.

I wish India would do us all a favor and just destroy Pakistan once and for all.

But my point with all of this is that these are hopeless nations hellbent on killing each over because they have different interpretations on the same fricking religion. No country in the middle east is worth a single American fingernail much less our blood and tax money.

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t I would much prefer to trust civilians in government (and High Command) that have done the research and know the history of those areas.

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I think they've given us more than enough reason to be skeptical of their intentions.

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while I believe this to be true, and some of the viewpoints expressed aren't exactly coming from MENSA members in good standing, I doubt your post will go over well here

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I couldn’t give two shits. There’s a reason we have a front line, and a reason we have a Pentagon. They’re not exactly interchangeable.

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I think he's pointing out that most don't have as big of a view of the big picture as they think they do, but are making broad generalizations based on limited vantage points

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Pretty much. And pointing out the fact that just because a Veteran has thoughts regarding warfare doesn’t make them any truer simply because they’ve seen battle.

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64%

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Seems low to me.

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The Russians could have told us that.

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They did. We just didn't listen. It was all documented.