Jim Morin for December 13, 2019

These generals have nothing to say because they let it happen to themselves.

DUH-istan.

Well, I did one, my son, the other. Maybe we should think about the fact ‘Nam is now one of our major trading partners, and they even make parts now for our helicopters!

Boy, nobody saw THIS coming, huh?

As was predicted by literally everyone who had any sense of history, before the first troops arrived there.

Déjà vu … I still remember the “Five O’Clock Follies” held by the US government in Saigon’s Rex Hotel during that war …

Mr. Military says, “Boys and girls, can you say, ‘Quagmire’”?

I guess the glory of Grenada and Iraq 1 blinded politicians and military planners, made them think war was “easy”.

Thanks to Republican W.

Afghanistan is the stake upon which empires have impaled themselves.

I said that the day we went in. There is absolutely no defense for the way that “war” was/is handled.

Well, we have to have a war going on somewhere don’t we? Well, don’t we? /s

According to a popular conspiracy theory, if JFK had been re-elected, he was going to start pulling troops out of Vietnam and the MIC didn’t want him to do that, which led to his assassination. Considering JFK started the Peace Corp, imagine how much better the U.S. and the world could be if U.S. money and people were dedicated to the Peace Corp rather than war profiteers.

Rotten Republican neo-cons got us into this mess and kept us there.

The Deep State Arms Makers want to have war so they can sell their weapons.

We would face major unemployment if we just walked away from this “war” on our best and brightest (and young) people. This admin (and to a large extent the prior one) seems intent on rewriting the aphorism to “war of the people, by the people and against the people.”

“Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?… When will we ever learn? When will we ever… learn”