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All I Want For Christmas Is the End to Unnecessary War--FEE
Posted on 12/17/17 at 6:13 pm
Posted on 12/17/17 at 6:13 pm
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Listen up Trump and Congress
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All I Want For Christmas Is the End to Unnecessary War
Ego, vanity, and hubris should not push us to fight when we don’t have to.
Erik Goepner
by Erik Goepner
All I want for Christmas is for the US to only fight the wars it has to and to stay out of all the others. The lives of young Americans are too high a price to pay for wars driven by threat inflation, ego, or foolhardy social experiments.
The unseemly traits of ego, vanity, and hubris should not push us to fight when we don’t have to.
First, we’re Americans. Enough of the hand-wringing. Islamist-inspired terrorists do not hide around every corner. Instead, we have been and continue to be quite safe. The threat from groups operating within failed states like Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and so on pales in comparison to Hitler’s armies marching across Europe and our nuclear Cold War with the Soviet Union, despite President Trump’s attempts to equate the three.
Second, the unseemly traits of ego, vanity, and hubris should not push us to fight when we don’t have to. Teddy Roosevelt had it right: Walk softly and carry a big stick.
Third, American lives and financial treasure should not be spent on cool-sounding social experiments like, “Democracy will flourish in Muslim-majority states in response to US invasions.” Since 9/11, though, all three US administrations have referred to Afghan and Iraqi leaders as “reliable partners” at one time or another, while extolling democratic progress in both countries.
The data, however, provide no support for those claims. As of today, Freedom House gives both countries its lowest rating – “not free.” And, in terms of corruption, Iraq and Afghanistan’s governments rank worse than 94 and 96 percent of all governments worldwide.
All war is darkness.
All war is darkness. My Opa spoke those words to me 40 years ago. I remember it vividly because as he shared that one sentence, he pointed to the bullet hole in his shoulder and the shrapnel scar on his neck. He had barely survived the war as an enlisted man in the German army; and when the war ended, he found his home country had become East Germany. Three years later, he took my Oma and (then) three-year-old dad and they escaped to the west. Eventually, they made it to America.
My war experiences have been much briefer than my Opa’s, but I get his point. All war is darkness, so for the sake of those sent to do the fighting, the war has to be a necessary one. And our war on terror isn’t.
Let’s bring America’s sons and daughters home for the holidays. We’ll all be the better for it.
Reprinted from Cato Institute.
Erik Goepner is a visiting research fellow in the Cato Institute’s Defense and Foreign Policy Department. A retired colonel from the U.S. Air Force, his military assignments included unit commands in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Pacific region.
Listen up Trump and Congress
Posted on 12/17/17 at 6:45 pm to I B Freeman
but who gets to decide the meaning of necessary?
Posted on 12/17/17 at 7:15 pm to keakar
None we are in now quality IMHO.
Who are the 6 war mongers that down voted the OP? Do you want to pick up a rifle and go to Afghanistan??
Who are the 6 war mongers that down voted the OP? Do you want to pick up a rifle and go to Afghanistan??
Posted on 12/17/17 at 7:19 pm to keakar
An American soldier's life is not worth increased business profits, bringing democracy to another country or protecting a strategic ally from any perceived threat. An American soldier's life is only worth protecting the United States of America and its citizens.
Posted on 12/18/17 at 12:28 pm to SCLibertarian
That is exactly right.
Posted on 12/18/17 at 12:43 pm to I B Freeman
The only war we should be fighting is a new crusade to retake Europe and the holy land
Posted on 12/18/17 at 12:46 pm to I B Freeman
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Who are the 6 war mongers that down voted the OP?
Downvoted for whining about being downvoted.
Posted on 12/18/17 at 12:50 pm to I B Freeman
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Who are the 6 war mongers that down voted the OP?
So if someone disagrees with you, you get to call them names? Great argument technique! Has it worked since 1st grade?
Sure didn’t work for the basket of deplorables lady.
Posted on 12/18/17 at 12:50 pm to I B Freeman
Isn't amazing that the headlines are filled with trivial whining from women who don't know how to slap inappropriate men while we still have soldiers fighting across the world?
Posted on 12/18/17 at 12:51 pm to Gaspergou202
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So if someone disagrees with you
If someone disagrees with the premise we should end unnecessary war what are they but war mongers??
Posted on 12/18/17 at 1:01 pm to Gaspergou202
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So if someone disagrees with you, you get to call them names? Great argument technique! Has it worked since 1st grade?
OP is a drama queen who gets off on hearing himself pontificate.
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