Reply #276: Yep it is a hard rock and a hard place [View All]

[nadinbrzezinski]

and I did have to make some very damn hard decisions.

Personally I hope he does not have to make those... leading troops is hard enough, and in my case taking care of patients was hard enough, as well as Triage.

The other thing that is coming up in this thread is actually multifaceted.

1.- There is a small but very vocal minority that could almost reach across to the right wing in how much they despise the troops. Yep, freepers hate the troops, not all, but a small and very loud minority does. Just as there are some liberals who also hate the troops. They just express it in different ways

For the freeper it is the ever so lovely, but, but they volunteered and they hate to fund VA and Military Medical Centers

For the Progressive it is expressed in things such as ... damn trained killers, and they get psyched up to go kill innocent people! Having gotten shot at I know that it is never that simple.

When you look under the hood... it is just hate, and truly lack of any clue of what goes on or why

2.- And again this is a very small but extremely vocal minoroty... we, well I, am asking them to do something they really don't want to do, and that is to do their duty as citizens. I am also asking of them to understand why troops cannot make policy... it is a very dark place indeed when any army starts making policy.

Lastly, there is this this almost magical belief that if I think something is wrong (and this war is by the way), somehow that transfers to legal standing. It does not, and that is why we need to continue working to take away the keys from the drunkard in chief. We owe the troops who deploy... the 98% of them who are good klds and do as they are told, and will qusstion ilegal orders (such as PfC Darbe, ) that we will bring them home. That is our duty. And that we will take care of them when they come home.