Enlisting in the U.S. military is a big step for any young adult.
Western military aid has created a stalemate in Ukraine.
They don’t tell us if if the ISIS operatives killed or detained were key players in the organization or low-level members who easily could be replaced,
Don’t look for those within this nightmarish system to change it, not when our elected representatives are part of the very military-industrial complex that sustains this MADness.
The real inheritance of Pearl Harbor is that it shrank the world in terms of how Americans have thought about their national security ever since.
We should not be sending any of our young men and women off to war unless it’s truly about the defense of our nation. Once we send them off to war, we need to take care of them always—not just on Veterans Day.
I believe that if Americans were really being honest on the issue, some might concede they actually miss the Cold War.
As a retired Air Force officer, let me tell you this: honor code or not, you can’t win a war with lies.
My strong sense is that the lesson in every subsequent administration has been to try and keep military action off the front pages as absolutely as much as possible.