There are Two Kinds of People...

There are two kinds of people.  The people who divide people into two kinds...and then there's that other kind...

That was a joke.  I'll wait for you to compose yourselves.

Whether or not you chose to guffaw, or just chortle politely, I'll still share with you something that you deserve to know: Only those who have served, or are serving, in the military of the United States can understand how we feel.  How desperately we were sandbagged.  How we were lied to, and then sold out.  We are angry.  As a group.  And that's 3.5 million veterans who have served or are serving.   

Or, I'd offer, quite a few more than want boys to pee in girl's bathrooms.  Or want "critical race theory" taught in our kindergartens.

We (thought we) knew that no matter how meager the pay, how long the hours, how dingy the assignments, or how dangerous the missions, at least we'd never be left behind, nor leave another behind.  That's been our mantra.  Our motto.  It gave the whole thing meaning.  It was like the "why" when anyone asked...

But now the civilians in Washington, D.C., have broken that promise made so long ago.  To us, to our allies, to our friends, and even to our enemies.  It always served as a deterrent, I've thought, for our enemies to know we'd be coming back for them...and you...if you shot any of us.  And it was.  

No longer, apparently.

We don't leave one or two behind.  No Siree Bob!  In Afghanistan we've left somewhere around 100 or so American civilians, maybe more, and another 14,700 "S.I.V.'s."  Or course, these numbers are "fluid," as they say.  Apparently nobody knows.  Or if they do, nobody's saying.  They not only left people behind...no, no...they left the population of a small town behind!!!

Our Founding Fathers decided long ago that civilians should be put in charge of our military.  Preventing coups, and all that.  Normally it's worked okay.  Normally we've either had presidents who had military experience, or those who have valued the military and its contributions.

Like our last one.  

Okay, okay.  I hear somebody in the Cheap Seats yelling, "But what about Jimmuh Carter?"  Touche!

Anyway, the F.F.'s chose civilians, and I haven't had a bitch about it to date.  I do now.

The stumbling, dimbulb fool in the White House went straight from law school to the Senate.  He graduated 73rd in his class of 187 at Univ. of Maryland Law, and took that degree of stellar academic and intellectual achievement to his first, and only, job.  As a U. S. Senator.  

Which lasted about 87 years.

Just kidding.  Only about 39.  Then 8 years wiping Obama's a*s.  And now his turn in the barrel.  I often wonder if this empty suit actually knows what's going on around him.  What a shi*storm his (or somebody's?) policies have caused.  I think they just keep him in the corner, wound up, like "Weekend at Bernie's," and drag him out when the TelePrompTer needs reading.  Poorly...

So in closing, just leave here with this:  Those who are charged with keeping us safe are pissed off, and shall remain so.  Likely forever.  And just think.  Each of those soldiers and sailors and Marines and Guardsmen believe you broke their promise.  And they all have moms and dads and brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles and relatives out the kazoo.  And they all vote...

You think this will all just go away?  You think that this is the last time you'll hear about this?  

Not a chance in Hell...