Soldiers Are Coming Home Injured and Addicted -- Will We Pay Our Debt to Our Vets?

[caseymoz]

5. No. I'm stunned anybody joins now.

After Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, it ought to be apparent to everybody by now that the military is being used as a tool for politicians. Its personnel are disposable. Whatever proud tradition it had is gone after it literally became an imperial army. A government cynical enough to do what we've done in Iraq is calloused enough to leave our veterans twisting in the wind.

The news hasn't sunk in yet, but as these veterans become more alienated and are around to spread their disaffection, it will.

I hate to say too many people, conservatives mostly, took the exact wrong lesson from Vietnam, and that was we just didn't do it right.