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Why America's servicemen and Veterans should NOT support McCain!
America's vets and active duty military personel need to take a hard look at the absolutely insane "diplomacy" that John McCain has already blurted out. All his talk about being a vet, and having oodles of diplomatic experience looks a bit contrived, when you consider some of his very careless comments and contradictions.
Does anyone with serious diplomatic experience think "bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran" is a statement a real EXPERIENCED and QUALIFIED statesman would ever make?
If that is what Mccain's "experience" has taught him, to
flippantly taunt world leaders and threaten them with destruction, even while our troops are in harm's way, then he doesn't deserve the vote of anyone, let alone our veterans.
Reminds me of Bush's "bring em' on" stupidity, how can you possibly attribute leadership, especially world diplomacy, to big little boys who act like schoolyard bullies, and get our troops killed in the process.
These guys make our whole military image look like a big, stupid, clumsy blind cyclops, swinging at fleas with billion dollar baseball bats and breaking our own bones in the process.
McCain's no statesman, and no diplomat and he's no world leader. He's just another blind, obsessively ambitious pawn of the no-bid, easy-money profiteers who build those billion-dollar bludgeons.
Comments (4)
OOPS, I left out "book-cooking" between "no-bid" and "easy-money"...
May 26, 2008 3:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
If McBane were really intelligent and as expereinced as he likes to claim, then he'd vote for his opponent.
May 27, 2008 12:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
Awesome. Recommended. Loved this:
I spent ten years in the Navy during the 90s and that is exactly how our military was used during so-called "peacetime" when we enforced rules that killed millions of Iraqi children.
I would say the last principled use of the US military was the response to Hurricane Andrew in 1992 or perhaps our participation in Bosnia. The military can be useful if deployed properly.
Our "leaders" have been about the stupidest assholes on the planet when it comes to international diplomacy. Further, under both parties, we have yet to attain the promise inherent in our founding documents. I would say stepping away from imperial projection of our military forces might be a great place to start.
I say bring them all home, from every corner of the globe, and start fresh with designing a strategy. I thin there is a reason why the Constitution prohibited standing armies. They have been abused throughout history.
We are only the latest incarnation of that too-common human failing.
May 27, 2008 10:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
I read that bill in its entirety and don't find it to be very generous at all. It requires 36 months of active duty service before it pays 100% tuition and stipend, which again leaves many reserve military out in the cold. That is a shame because in this war, especially, for every active duty soldier there are seven reserve soldiers in support activities. It also disallows military training as part of that active duty and for reservists training is a good part of their active duty service.
May 27, 2008 3:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
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