05-06-2011, 02:01 AM
Maybe not our personal freedom at this very moment, Luke, but there are other people in the world. Like the people over there that want a chance at a good life. They wants schools and markets and peace. If we can help them with that, we have won that war.
COIN ops now include community building. We aren't just over there killing people. They have been occupied by terrorist organizations that kill them as easily as they kill us.
I just read an article about the 70 shops the US is helping build near the Helmand River so people have a permanent place to make a living and feed their families. If you keep people busy with living, they will have less of an interest in killing and dying. Maybe that money will create hope in the world. The money we spend letting our citizens sit on their asses and raise illiterate children is wasted in comparison. (NOT including money spent on the elderly. We owe them. I owe them. I know that.)
I'm sorry you are shrinking in your osteo years. Keep dreaming about my luscious bones, as long as your fantasies don't include fava beans.
COIN ops now include community building. We aren't just over there killing people. They have been occupied by terrorist organizations that kill them as easily as they kill us.
I just read an article about the 70 shops the US is helping build near the Helmand River so people have a permanent place to make a living and feed their families. If you keep people busy with living, they will have less of an interest in killing and dying. Maybe that money will create hope in the world. The money we spend letting our citizens sit on their asses and raise illiterate children is wasted in comparison. (NOT including money spent on the elderly. We owe them. I owe them. I know that.)
I'm sorry you are shrinking in your osteo years. Keep dreaming about my luscious bones, as long as your fantasies don't include fava beans.