Why Do Most Patriots Oppose Biden’s Ukraine War?
In any war, patriots are most likely to “support the troops.” And to join themselves, or encourage their children to join. Remember after 9/11? The flags flying. Rallying around the military. Support for the president soaring over 90%. The whole country taking a bead on Osama bin Laden.
Even I supported going after the terrorist, who then was holed up in the mountains of northeast Afghanistan. It was the only military operation I’ve supported since the Cold War ended in 1991.
Then Bush expanded the mission to taking over all Afghanistan and turning it into a model democracy. Then he did the same thing in 2003 to Iraq. Remember the “weapons of mass destruction,” never found? And how he took elite troops away from the hunt for Osama to use in the Iraq invasion – letting Osama escape, until he was killed in 2011 in Pakistan, an American ally? (Assuming the government isn’t lying about that story, too.)
Both the Iraq and Afghan wars turned out to be deadly and expensive quagmires, costing many thousands of our bravest dead and $7 billion; plus let’s not forget the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghanis killed and their countries ruined. The Afghan debacle ended with the disastrous exit 2021 exit from Kabul.
This time, on Biden’s Ukraine War, to use a great Goldynism, most American patriots are saying: Include me out.
Another big problem is the military service of those leading us into this needless war. Here’s the number of days served by those at the top:
President Biden 0 days
VP Kamala Harris 0 days
SecState Blinken 0 days
Under SecState Nuland 0 days
NatSec Adviser Sullivan 0 days
Army Secretary Wormuth 0 days
Total days of service: 0 days. Not even one minute with a boot-camp sergeant screaming: “Drop and give me 20!”
The last one, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, is so typical. According to the Army’s website, “Wormuth holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Fine Arts from Williams College and a Masters of Public Policy from the University of Maryland.”
Fine arts. Not military arts.
And:
Wormuth entered the government in 1996 [age 27] as a Presidential Management Intern and began her public service career in the Policy Office of the Office of the Secretary of Defense until 2002.
After leaving government, she worked in the private sector on defense issues and then was a Senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies for five years.
After school, she went into government. No real-word experience, even in business or local government; “private sector on defense issues” is not the real private sector, but part of the Military Industrial Complex.
And remember, it was just two years ago Gen. Milley, still the chief of staff, was pushing Critical Race Theory (itself really a form of racism) and warning ominously of “white rage” among some in the military ranks.
Biden’s whole administration attacks our great history, highlighting and exaggerating the sins people like Washington committed, but ignoring their glorious accomplishments, such as being the father of our country.
You can’t have much of a military when you offend the people most likely to get a lump in the hearts when they stand at a ballgame to sing the Star Spangled Banner. Or put hand over heart for the Pledge of Allegiance at an American Legion pancake breakfast. Or visit the grave of an veteran ancestor at a national cemetery on Memorial Day.
The Army now is falling 25% short of its 60,000 recruitment goal. The goal for 2023 is 65,000, of which Wormuth said, “I would call it a stretch goal.” Ya think? Stretch goal? Who talks like that? Where do the Democrats get these people?
After that AP story ran in the Denver Post, a letter writer said this:
Hard to recruit soldiers when there’s no trust
As an “old soldier” (Armor/Cavalry Officer Commissioned in 1978) I found the article on Army recruitment difficulties to be entirely credible.
In the last several years, young Americans have witnessed the debacle in Afghanistan and the unnecessary deaths and atrocious abandonment of both American and allied personnel. They witnessed the forced COVID vaccination of service members, regardless of their moral or religious objections, and the general discharging and subsequent loss of well-earned benefits of those who refused the vaccination.
Given only those two very well-known, well-publicized, and blatant acts of abandonment of our service personnel by the political yes-men in the military chain of command, it is no wonder that our young Americans do not trust Army leadership. I wouldn’t trust the posturing, bloviated generals, either.
Personally, I would rather have a small, extremely well-trained, highly-motivated force rather than thousands of CAT-IV or CAT-V [low physical shape] enlistees just to “keep the numbers up.”
Richard D. VanOrsdale, Broomfield
Do some research yourself in the comments sections of articles on the war and the military. It’s all over the place.
Most American patriots oppose this senseless Ukraine War and the leadership that hates those most loyal to our flag and the valor of our country.