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This Memorial Day, we remember the sacrifices of so many who died. And so many who do not need to.
After Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan (and the accompanying death toll), American servicemembers continue to be killed. There may be no official wars, but an Iranian-backed attack out of Iraq at an American base on the Jordanian border claimed the lives of 3 servicemembers and two Navy SEALs died trying to intercept Iranian weapons being smuggled to the Houthi terrorists attacking ships in Yemen.
Some would say that we should withdraw from everywhere. Let Iran control shipping through the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. And then let China take Taiwan and the China Sea, let North Korea take South Korea and all the rest.
But even today, Iranian assassins are roaming America looking for targets. Will they go away once we do?
Will China stop spying on us and plotting against us?
The tragedy is that successive administrations squandered so many lives in pursuit of goals that did not strengthen us or weaken our enemies. We chased the folly of nation-building while exhausting our deterrence. And decades later they seem to have learned nothing from the experience. It’s sickening how many lives were lost, not only the dead, but the wounded and the scarred, and how little we’ve gained for all of that.
The fallen deserve a country whose government values their lives, not just their sacrifices.
Recently I was writing again about General McChrystal and the Afghanistan ‘surge’ under Obama. McChrystal told the Senate that he would not prioritize killing Taliban but shielding Afghan civilians. The end result was a massive surge in American military casualties under crippling rules of engagement.
American soldiers (and no soldiers) should ever be sacrificed to protect an enemy population. Nor should they be sent into combat to nation-build. We should not ask men to fight and die for global causes, but for American ones.
There must be an end to wokeness in the military and to liberalism in our use of force. We must put our soldiers first and the enemy last.
“No soldiers should ever be sacrificed to protect an enemy population.”
I think that’s a good point. Israel some years ago started using tactics that put Israeli soldiers at risk in order to protect the enemy population The result was that the terrorists increased the use of civilians as human shields, and many Israeli soldiers died. I think that must have been a leftist trick, to insert such tactics into Israeli tactics. The leftists must have known there would be bad consequences, including lengthening wars, which may even never end when such tactics are used.
Of course, one doesn’t want to be unnecessarily brutal to the enemy population, like the French were under Napoleon in Spain That roused the Spanish and Portuguese to take savage revenge on French soldiers and such.
America used to stand for the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. WE WERE THE BEACON OF FREEDOM AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. The rest of the population still honors our heroes inspite of what the Communist party tries to do to us, or force on us.
That Spy Balloon should have been shot down off the West Coast instead of allowing it to float over the whole North American Continent before bring it down