Indeed. Blame the politicians for glossing the fact that IEDs kill more troops than out and out war movie-style firefights. So, Americans cannot understand the desperate paranoia and exhaustion of the troops who finally shoot at ANY thing that moves and is not clearly non-threatening.
I may have been too subtle. Everything you say is true but none of it would have happened had the politicians not declared the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Indeed. Blame the politicians for glossing the fact that IEDs kill more troops than out and out war movie-style firefights. So, Americans cannot understand the desperate paranoia and exhaustion of the troops who finally shoot at ANY thing that moves and is not clearly non-threatening.
ReplyDeleteI may have been too subtle. Everything you say is true but none of it would have happened had the politicians not declared the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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