"In 2004, Duckworth was deployed to Iraq as a Blackhawk helicopter pilot for the Illinois Army National Guard. On November 12, 2004, her helicopter was hit by an RPG and she lost her legs and partial use of her right arm."
The fact that our pseudo-President makes bad decisions and confabulates about his lost son's service is hardly surprising. Nor is it surprising that bad decisions are made by our surrender-first diplomatic corps. What's not forgivable is that military officers who knew better saluted and not only participated in this debacle but encouraged it.
I have my grandmother's small diary. She had a 4th grade education. While the Battle of Iwo Jima was on she was petrified every day that something bad would happen to her "Jimmy". What news they had way out in the rural areas was sparse and mostly old newspapers and a very little radio. She feared every day that a military representative would show up at her door with very bad news. My father was wounded twice but survived through the end of the war.
If memory serves, it was Trump who telegraphed the date of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, a country the U.S. should never have invaded in the first place. I think most American citizens/voters would agree, which is why Trump decided to announce the end of the attempt at regime change in Afghanistan in the run up to the last election.Telling the enemy when you're going to move your troops is always a sign of incompetence. Biden is no more incompetent than Trump in that respect. Both are opportunists. And for the record, it was Jimmy Carter, taking advice from Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski, a Polish-American diplomat with a visceral hatred of the Soviets for occupying Poland, to get the Soviet's to invade that graveyard of empires and then to use the CIA to recruit political Islamists to go on a jihad to get them out. U.S. military apparatus got involved in that benighted country through an invasion ordered by G.W. Bush. Talk about incompetence, it's everywhere amongst our fearless leaders.
From https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/about-tammy/biography :
"In 2004, Duckworth was deployed to Iraq as a Blackhawk helicopter pilot for the Illinois Army National Guard. On November 12, 2004, her helicopter was hit by an RPG and she lost her legs and partial use of her right arm."
Doesn't sound like a training accident to me.
The fact that our pseudo-President makes bad decisions and confabulates about his lost son's service is hardly surprising. Nor is it surprising that bad decisions are made by our surrender-first diplomatic corps. What's not forgivable is that military officers who knew better saluted and not only participated in this debacle but encouraged it.
I have my grandmother's small diary. She had a 4th grade education. While the Battle of Iwo Jima was on she was petrified every day that something bad would happen to her "Jimmy". What news they had way out in the rural areas was sparse and mostly old newspapers and a very little radio. She feared every day that a military representative would show up at her door with very bad news. My father was wounded twice but survived through the end of the war.
The times were, indeed, very different.
If memory serves, it was Trump who telegraphed the date of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, a country the U.S. should never have invaded in the first place. I think most American citizens/voters would agree, which is why Trump decided to announce the end of the attempt at regime change in Afghanistan in the run up to the last election.Telling the enemy when you're going to move your troops is always a sign of incompetence. Biden is no more incompetent than Trump in that respect. Both are opportunists. And for the record, it was Jimmy Carter, taking advice from Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski, a Polish-American diplomat with a visceral hatred of the Soviets for occupying Poland, to get the Soviet's to invade that graveyard of empires and then to use the CIA to recruit political Islamists to go on a jihad to get them out. U.S. military apparatus got involved in that benighted country through an invasion ordered by G.W. Bush. Talk about incompetence, it's everywhere amongst our fearless leaders.