It is Far More Sinister Than You Think. David McGrath.
More than 800,000 Soldiers, Airmen, Marines and Navy Sailors served in the war in Afghanistan. I am one of them. I worked the streets of Kabul on my last deployment. Day, and night we trudged the mind- bending, stomach- turning streets of the overcrowded streets of Kabul. It amazed me how many people could fit on the back of one motor bike, and how daring civilians were to jump right in front of an armored vehicle with the horn blaring with seemingly no regard for their personal safety. I became a man there too. I learned a lot about myself. I fought hard there.
I got to peek far behind the war curtain on that year-long deployment. I was in a leadership position. I agonized over every one of the thousands of decisions I made that year. There is nothing worse to a soldier than the feeling you get when you may have flubbed something and put another man who wears your unit patch in danger. It is indescribable. You would rather die yourself than to get someone else hurt.
That’s why I cannot fathom the missteps, the almost pathological behavior of President Joe Biden’s administration, and the decisions surrounding ending the Afghanistan conflict. I have to imagine that this is all by design. Nobody could be incompetent enough to give away our most strategic staging area in country: Bagram Air field.
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Hmm..... Afghanistan, eh? So let's reflect, a moment, on our international ventures during the last 75 years;
among them Korea, Viet-nam and Iraq, to name a few. Reality is Afghanistan is simply more of the same!
