Empirical Discards

As a veteran I have often heard it said that the measure of a country can be seen in its treatment of the people that it calls upon for the ultimate duty.  In all actuality it can be seen in its treatment of the people that are no longer able to serve due to injury, or especially to the ones that have been crippled by unseen injuries. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) used to be referred to as shell shock and is the incapacitating of the service member caused by damaging the mental capacity beyond the point of being able to function in a serviceable role.

By all accounts that I have ever read, our service members were treated with great care and compassion after WW2. However, this was our point of no return as it was our last war that actually had a more or less noble purpose. Korea and Vietnam were not actual wars, but were military exercises meant to deny a political adversary (USSR) a prize and to enrich the military industrial complex that Eisenhower had warned us about. The skirmishes since have been exercises in geopolitical chess and to allow the military to practice an often new combat philosophy.

Flash forward to Desert Storm...........it was about the oil. Period. That is the only way that you can cobble together such a disparate coalition as was used to kick Saddam's ass out of Kuwait. Actually it was America doing the kicking, the rest were for window dressing.

Our people returning from Iraq complained from a plethora of maladies that have been termed "Gulf War Syndrome" which was denied by all governments involved. Recently the government of the UK has admitted to problems that many have attributed to the depleted uranium armament used in many applications, most notably as armor piercing rounds. The dust from the disintegration of these rounds has found its way into lungs and environment alike. Iraqi birth defects outpaced the entire world after this skirmish. Go sucking some uranium dust into your lungs and see if you come out fine and dandy. Note that this was the first time that this technology was used on a wholesale basis. Nothing wrong with you soldier, take some of these pills and get the hell out, we don't need any sick call soldiers taking up valuable space.

September 11, 2001 was a good reason to go in and totally obliterate AFGHANISTAN. By refusing to hand over Bin Laden and his unwashed rag head followers, that should have sealed their fate. Total and complete obliteration of the country was justified and should have happened. No need to occupy or attempt nation building. Maybe an oil pipeline had something to do with this strategy. Invading Iraq had been on the Bush agenda since becoming president-elect. There is ample proof of this available all over the internet for your perusal.  We take over the country and proceed to build the worlds largest and most expensive embassy complex. Why? Could it possibly be the worlds third largest oil reserves?

Regardless, I say all of that just to go and direct you to the following ARTICLE.

There is no longer anything about this country that is noble or good. We are just marching along on the path of empire and starting to stagger under the weight of trying to rule far flung nations and provinces with intimidation, whether it be militarily or financially. Both of which are losing their power.


Don't think so? Just try crossing the empire or cease being useful to it and see how fast you get discarded.