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A soldier asked the commanding BG a variant of this question and was immediately shut down. I found it interesting and can’t stop thinking about it.
With the slowing of major activity in Afghanistan and rebuilding in Iraq, are we technically at war? If you believe so, with whom?
With the slowing of major activity in Afghanistan and rebuilding in Iraq, are we technically at war? If you believe so, with whom?
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The enemy is still there. Isis is still there just in a low-level capacity. It's kind of like if you stop taking the penicillin before the prescription ends, infection gets resistant to it. Iraq is still following it back into Anarchy and some places. It's kind of like not taking your penicillin for full duration of the prescription and cutting it off early as soon as the infection goes away but then the remaining virus gets resistant to treatment. in addition to this, corruption in Iraq and Afghanistan. All the games we made her lost because the central government is too weak in the corruption continues. Something so this would happen in Vietnam.
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I just finally watch the last episodes of Ken Burns Vietnam and so much of this sounds familiar to Vietnam as it does in Iraq and Afghanistan. Kurupt and Ruth the central government and a determined enemy like Isis, al-qaida the Communist North Vietnam and the Vietcong in the South.
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CPT (Join to see), to think that the United States is not involved in military conflict currently (maybe not declared war) is simply naive. Ask the survivors of the KIA or those wounded in action if we’re at war. I think you know the response you’ll receive.
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LTC Stephen C. Nowhere did I say we’re not engaged in conflict around the world sir. My question was if we were at war, and if you believed so, with whom?
Thanks for the reply sir!
Thanks for the reply sir!
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