I just saw this documentary called "Hell and Back Again".
Well, its just another documentary on Afghanistan War's effects on the American Soldier. It was well directed and edited. And it once again pressed upon the very simple and very evident point that these wars are just leaving a very deep scar on the current generation of Americans.
So young, physical, energetic, well trained and motivated. Yet so easily lost to one bullet. There is not a day that goes by when I do not stop and think for a second "What If". What if we had not had these wars and all the guys and potential had been used to build a new American economy and working force with all the money that was lost in these wars. What if ?
What if we had send them to protect the borders and stop drug inflow. What if we had sent to New Orleans the next hour Katrina passed by. What if we sent them to get rid of sea piracy. What if we sent them on a 3 month mandatory National Service of their choice. You know! Teach, help elders, help scouts, help build homes for homeless. The number and difficulty of tasks at home trumps the need,cost or justification of these wars.
If at all we have to fight this enemy, lets build more upon special forces, the best of the best with best intelligence and missions and peel the bark off these degenerates called Taliban and extremists. Armies are used for fighting wars, not in taking down a few thousand terrorists. Taliban are like DDT resistant cockroaches that we will never get rid of because the we can never get of ideology that harbors them. The only way we will get rid of ideology is by educating those who are susceptible to this ideology. We need to attack them by developing a new form of DDT that affect their genes of ideology.
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Well, its just another documentary on Afghanistan War's effects on the American Soldier. It was well directed and edited. And it once again pressed upon the very simple and very evident point that these wars are just leaving a very deep scar on the current generation of Americans.
So young, physical, energetic, well trained and motivated. Yet so easily lost to one bullet. There is not a day that goes by when I do not stop and think for a second "What If". What if we had not had these wars and all the guys and potential had been used to build a new American economy and working force with all the money that was lost in these wars. What if ?
What if we had send them to protect the borders and stop drug inflow. What if we had sent to New Orleans the next hour Katrina passed by. What if we sent them to get rid of sea piracy. What if we sent them on a 3 month mandatory National Service of their choice. You know! Teach, help elders, help scouts, help build homes for homeless. The number and difficulty of tasks at home trumps the need,cost or justification of these wars.
If at all we have to fight this enemy, lets build more upon special forces, the best of the best with best intelligence and missions and peel the bark off these degenerates called Taliban and extremists. Armies are used for fighting wars, not in taking down a few thousand terrorists. Taliban are like DDT resistant cockroaches that we will never get rid of because the we can never get of ideology that harbors them. The only way we will get rid of ideology is by educating those who are susceptible to this ideology. We need to attack them by developing a new form of DDT that affect their genes of ideology.
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