My nephew who is in the reserves just called to Dubai. I suspect that there will be no politicians kids with him overseas. Something is in the works. Wonderful, now my family gets to be part of the meatgrinder.
My nephew who is in the reserves just called to Dubai. I suspect that there will be no politicians kids with him overseas. Something is in the works. Wonderful, now my family gets to be part of the meatgrinder.
My nephew who is in the reserves just called to Dubai. I suspect that there will be no politicians kids with him overseas. Something is in the works. Wonderful, now my family gets to be part of the meatgrinder.
I always find it amusing how Israel boosters talk about how Israel is this great asset to the USA in the Middle East...and yet they never help in any of the wars, never send any troops, it's always US troops fighting and dying, not IDF.
Or, for that matter, Saudi troops.
I always find it amusing how Israel boosters talk about how Israel is this great asset to the USA in the Middle East...and yet they never help in any of the wars, never send any troops, it's always US troops fighting and dying, not IDF.
Or, for that matter, Saudi troops.
Seriously? You think it's at all feasible to have Israeli troops helping us fight in Arab countries? I guaranty you we would not accept such help even if offered because it would be counter-productive.
Seriously? You think it's at all feasible to have Israeli troops helping us fight in Arab countries? I guaranty you we would not accept such help even if offered because it would be counter-productive.
Yes, it isn't feasible. And yet they are "indispensable" to US interests. Yet, they are effectively useless in hard power and they cause the Muslims to hate us. And even then, we gift them directly $5 billion a year and assorted other costs make it probably $15 billion a year. 9-11 probably would never have happened, and from there the second Iraq war, if Israel weren't around.
The real reason we support them is religious. I admit I've felt the tug myself, given how much of the Jewish story I read in the Bible growing up.
When we go to war in Syria, North Korea and Yemen, the mainstream media will portray America as heroic and Trump as wise, the flags will come out and a shitload of people will die. American soldiers are about to die at a rate at least comparable to Bush and perhaps worse AND FOR FUCKING WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Hint... corporate and political capital are not valid reasons...
No, the real reason we support them is because they are the only real democracy in the region. So far as I'm concerned, we should support other democracies on principle, especially those who are surrounded by hostile non-democracies who want to destroy them.
Ironically, my brother and his family voted for Trump. They have one other son who is attending UWMadison for engineering and who opted into the Air Force Reserves to help pay for it. He will probably end up overseas as well.
Tulsi Gabbard now under attack from her own party for the audacity to ask for a proper investigation into this chemical attack.
ROFL!!! Newsmax and fact checking? For what....accuracy? Yeah, cannot see anything wrong with that combination other than it couldn't be a more idiotic combination.......
The reality is that there were continued chemical-weapons attacks by Syria — and that U.S. and international officials had good evidence that Syria had not been completely forthcoming in its declaration and possibly retained sarin and VX nerve agent. Yet Rice said: “We were able to get the Syrian government to voluntarily and verifiably give up its chemical weapons stockpile.” She did not explain that Syria’s declaration was believed to be incomplete and thus was not fully verified — and that the Syrian government still attacked citizens with chemical weapons not covered by the 2013 agreement. That tipped her wordsmithing toward a Four.