Thursday, May 18, 2017

Is US military the worst in the world?


If our $600 billion dollar a year military is so great why can't it defeat one the poorest and most corrupt countries on Earth? Sixteen years, 2,350 soldiers dead and tens of thousands damaged in body and mind and its one unrelenting defeat after another in Afghanistan...the graveyard of empires. The Taliban controls more of that godforsaken land than anytime since 2001, even though we spend a billion a week to flail away like fools at a pretend enemy fighting with sticks and stones that will never be defeated. The generals who play the idiot Trump are demanding an additional 5,000 in canon fodder to stave off the inevitable defeat that can't come soon enough. When you're bleeding to death as the American empire is, Job One is to stop the bleeding. The war party is too invested in the power, glory and riches of perpetual war to apply the tourniquet. And the idiot Trump is still bursting with pride over dropping the 22 ton 'Mother of All Bombs' that obliterated a few dozen Afghans to get the message that criminal war doesn't pay.

In answer to the question posed in the title, no, the US military isn't the worst in the world. America's political leadership is.


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