The Military ruined this country

[ancianita]

116. Who is the "we"? The private sector miltary contractors or the actual troops? I know that

the skills you claim for the military actually belong to military contracted corporate workers who our troops "protect" at much lower pay while those contractors do the "nation building." Very few skills taught to troops are applicable to helping nation building here anymore. My Navy-trained electrician brother knows this for a fact. None of this training is provided to troops anymore. So no. Nation building isn't what comes from bringing "trained" troops home. If you can prove otherwise, I welcome the enlightenment. But the scope of the military since Vietnam is no longer to train its troops with major nation building skills. Poll current veterans who can't find jobs.

As an aside: one example of our "nation building" was our helping -- legally and monetarily -- the Iraqis to write a constitution that provides ITS citizens with single payer healthcare for life. If WE can't afford it, how can they?