Yes, I spent Veteran's Day lamenting my late 70s stupidity. I firmly supported an all-volunteer draft because it never occurred to me that the Kennedys, Kerrys and Bushes would not serve, but that has become one of the perogatives of wealth in the U.S. George Bush used his family influence to skirt active duty. Then, the military was honorable endeavor.
Since Vietnam, what with Iraq and Saddam, also Bush's doing, we have instigated had a number of failed or marginal military encounters. The most recent being Afghanistan, which ended shamefully and was caused by the generals misleading the politicians and public about how successful various actions were.
So here we are with an all-volunteer military that dumped $8 trillion and can't afford to fix our own infrastructure, while Asraf Ghani, made off to Egypt with several million American dollars.
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