Has anyone ever noticed that EVERY war in recent times we have gone into we have lost?
Namely Vietnam, Iraq 1&2, Afghanistan.
When i say lost please understand, I am well aware that an objective was accomplished in Iraq/Afghanistan but looking at the bigger picture its a loss. There are still terror cells everywhere, we have spent billions of dollars, theres no infrastructure setup and we aretrying to pull our troops out. So yes a loss.
We go into alot of these issues with an easy as pie approach thinking we will just launch a few warheads and that'll be that and then get sucked in for a long term project.
Almost like taking half your car apart assuming shits not going to break or be rusted then having to sell your half apart project on zilvia because you have no clue what you've gotten yourself into (but asking top dollar of course, cause its fukin zilvia).
I've done alot of research on topics like this and thought long and hard as to the pros and cons into going into these things and policing the world.
Most of it has to do (IMO) with the captain save a hoe mentality where we feel and have made it our job to be the hero always.
Part of it has to do with being able to flex our arms that we are still the big dogs in the world.
The rest boils down to money and gains of course.
I can't understand why we can't get this shit right.
We go into a country, take control, put people in place then leave without any accountability or oversight. We leave our weapons behind, Arm a society with no accountability, minimal training and expect shit to be peachy.
Then the country repeats itself and we do the same thing again or they become our enemy.
Who put Castro in office when we ran down in Cuba??? We did, arming the "rebel" fighters.
Look how that turned out.
Who put Sadam Hussein in office???? Again arming the "rebel" fighters..... Oh yea us again, look how that turned out.
Who gave Bin Laden and the Mujahadeen to fight the Soviets all of their training and weapons when the USSR was trying to invade Afghanistan????
Oh shit us again..... Boy did that one bite us in the ass....
Ghadaffi- Same deal, arm the rebels, they overthrow the government with our aid and help, they get into power, theres no oversight of anything and bam back to square one.
Currently this is the same deal we are going through in Afghanistan with Hamid Karzai. One day hes a good little boy, the next he's shunning us.
One day it's "we will never negotiate with terrorists and the Taliban, the next day it's this:
Afghan president Hamid Karzai urges Pakistan to help broker Taliban peace talks - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
So this is a very very interesting scenerio. Let me tell you how it plays out.
We go in there, destroy shit, stay for a while people complain that we are wasting time and funds, then leave a half ass government, with a half ass broken country and expect someone honest and loyal to say "Hey wait a minute we need a leader thats going to rebuild all this shit and I'm going to run it correctly" . Person X gets into office with a half ass "democratic" voting system (honesty policy applies here) then decides I'm the new Sheriff in town and noone's gonna tell me how to run shit. We tell them what to do and they say "Nah I have other ideas".
Meanwhile we give aid, there's no accountability as to whose getting it and how funds are dispersed, it falls into the wrong hands and boom. Egypt part 2.
LoL. At this point you just sit back and take the madness in as entertainment. I love my country. Im a dedicated Voter that tries to make the right decision and tries to give my input to make it a better country.
But some of the ass backwards shit we do boggles my mind.
End Rant. Thanks.