{"id":39247,"date":"2014-01-11T09:11:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T14:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39247"},"modified":"2014-01-11T09:11:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T14:11:11","slug":"vets-angry-at-al-qaeda-gains-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39247","title":{"rendered":"Vets angry at al Qaeda gains in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post’s Ernesto Londo\u00f1o writes today “U.S. veterans despondent over al-Qaeda\u2019s resurgence in Iraq<\/a>“, of course this a “d’uh” moment;<\/p>\n

The Iraq war may have never been declared lost. But the stunning surge in violence over the past year \u2014 and the return of al-Qaeda in the western province of Anbar this month \u2014 is forcing Americans who invested personally in the war\u2019s success to grapple with haunting questions.<\/p>\n

\u201cCould someone smart convince me that the black flag of al-Qaeda flying over Fallujah isn\u2019t analogous to the fall of Saigon?\u201d former Army captain Matt Gallagher asked on Twitter. \u201cBecause. Well.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s not like it couldn’t have been predicted. We declared the war ended in Vietnam a scant two years before Communist tanks rolled into Saigon. But, hey, the Left wanted to feel good about themselves and unilaterally declare the Iraq War over…well, the war didn’t really end, we just aren’t there anymore, like we weren’t on the field of battle in Vietnam. Our troops being withdrawn from Iraq became a successful campaign slogan, while violence continued in Iraq. <\/p>\n

The same thing will happen in Afghanistan, and it didn’t have to end that way. This administration’s sole strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan was withdrawal – not victory, and so, this is what we get. And, while this administration withdraws from the wars they inherited, they’re starting more conflicts with involvement in Africa, and Syria. They want to negotiate with Iran, which doesn’t have any intention of giving up on their nuclear program. All the while, they’re slashing manpower in the Defense Department and screwing over the people who fought the recent wars, to insure that the all-volunteer military will never work in a time of war again. And Jimmy Carter made sure that the draft will never work again by giving amnesty to draft dodgers after Vietnam. <\/p>\n

So here we sit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post’s Ernesto Londo\u00f1o writes today “U.S. veterans despondent over al-Qaeda\u2019s resurgence in Iraq“, of … Vets angry at al Qaeda gains in Iraq<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}