Retired Army Colonel: GWOT Vets Feel Extreme Resentment Toward Kamala Harris, Cheney, and Democrats
Kristina Wong
4 Nov 2024
Former President Donald Trump’s criticism of former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) as a war hawk has epitomized why so many Global War on Terrorism veterans resent Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democrat party, according to a retired U.S. Army colonel’s op-ed on Monday.
The retired colonel, who goes by the nom de plume “Cynical Publius,” wrote in The Federalist:
Harris and the Democrats have created a perfect storm of veteran disdain in that they have succeeded in uniting three once-inapposite groups behind Harris: the neocons who started the GWOT, the media and Democrats who undermined the veterans’ GWOT missions, and the generals who failed again and again and again at bringing the GWOT to a successful conclusion.
If you want to understand the prevailing veteran rage against Harris and love for Trump, you need to understand this unholy trinity that so many veterans loathe.
The author explains that Cheney has come to serve as a symbol of the “many advocates for useless, endless wars who never put their own lives (or the lives of their children) on the line, and who now support Kamala Harris.” He continued:
These are neocons like Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales, Bill Kristol, and the infamous 200-plus Republican former staffers for George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, and John McCain who helped design the GWOT. These are the people who put GWOT veterans into the cauldron that left them and so many of their friends dead, maimed, or bearing invisible scars that linger even today.
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