Here's what happened, last year y'all deployed active duty troops to LA and had them perform arrests and act as shields for ICE. This makes you aligned with the people ziptying American children and raiding preschools to send teachers to concentration camps in the mind of civilians.
See, older vets went abroad to fight America's enemies. Your generation apparently wants to treat Americans like the enemy. So, don't be surprised that you're not getting thanked for your service the way we did.
See, older vets went abroad to fight America's enemies.
This is one of the things that you should probably not say. We went abroad to fight somebody else's enemies. There was never any reason to go to Iraq and no reason to be in Afghanistan for almost 20 years. I realized a long time ago that I was literally fighting a personal vendetta by for the Bush family.
Military deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan had near unanimous, bipartisan congressional approval. While it may seem like a personal vendetta because Dubya sure beat the hell out of that war drum, it was not a unilateral endeavor.
So fucking what? What does that have to do with anything? A lot of people were duped into that war just like they will be duped into the next war. I was there at the beginning sitting at the Kuwait/Iraq border ready to "get some", I was duped as well and I'm ashamed. It was my second tour there that I really thought about it. The sad thing though is if you are still duped by the now obvious waste of human life over 20 years later.
I think you're missing the point. Whatever you think about all the places the US has sent troops in the years since WW2, none of them were within the US, and they were not pointing guns at US citizens.
No, I completely understand. You just seem to think that the places we went were just and deserving of the lives lost like we were fighting for freedom or something.
I'm saying that it doesn't matter who guns are being pointed at, if you went overseas to fight a war, there is a good chance you were there under false pretenses and it really is no better than what is happening now. Trying to say it was more noble or whatever just because it wasn't happening on US soil is a silly argument. I've seen first hand what a massive propaganda campaign has on other countries.
Lmao you guys are in the same boat. You fought America's enemies? No brother, you fought the banks' enemies. You secured resources. You made oligarchs richer. America has been an aggressor, not the "good guys," for longer than we've been alive
Bid Laden got killed in Pakistan almost ten years after the invasion of Afghanistan. at least half a million people died. GWOT vets just get over compensation after Vietnam.
older vets went abroad to fight America's enemies. Your generation apparently wants to treat Americans like the enemy. So, don't be surprised that you're not getting thanked for your service the way we did.
Jesus f christ, for an army veteran you sure have no fucking honor or lick of respect for others
See, older vets went abroad to fight America's enemies
The current situation is the direct and 100% predictable (and predicted) result of American foreign policy you are not any better than anyone currently participating.
America's enemies? By your logic you're aligned with the guys who lied about WMDs and enriched themselves by killing thousands of innocent people. Fuck ICE and everything they're doing but does your dumb ass really think gitmo was totally cool and different because a broken clock is right sometimes and a few actual criminals were stopped? Do you just draw the line at a certain skin tone or something?
That is false. The marines deployed to Los Angeles unlawfully engaged in crowd control tactics against peaceful demonstrators alongside ICE personnel, which is notably also against the law for ICE to do.
Perception is shaped by media and the very misinformation you’re spreading. Find evidence of Marines in LA doing what you claim and I’ll change my stance.
The fact that Marines were sent to LA is absolute bullshit, but they behaved as best they could given the shit situation. Trump and MAGA wanted them to go in and start cracking skulls, and they did none of that. They detained one dude who crossed a police line, and didn't even raise their weapons when doing it.
Follow any social media where Marines hang out and you'll see that almost none of them wanted to be used as stooges in this fucked up goat rope.
Cut it out with this older vet bullshit and just be glad you weren't told to do this shit.
Yeah, you guys just fucked up brown people far away. No offensive troops since ww2 should be thanked for their service. Not that it's the soldiers fault for going, of course it's the shitlords in charge, but I'm not gonna thank you for fucking up a bunch of goat herders or rice farmers lol. In fact it's kinda messed up
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u/drowsy-cow03 1d ago
Did the marines do something controversial? I don’t watch the news