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A well-written vent from somebody who's been there and done it. The question remains, "how can we get our citizenry to be better informed...have a broader perspective on the world and how lucky they are to be American?"
A Soldier’s Cry | National Review
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Wow! Col Joseph Lenertz What a great piece! So true, so true!!! "Myopia" - very, very, very true!
Thank you for posting!!!
Thank you for posting!!!
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This is profound... and needs to be widely read.
I'll put myself on report here; I'm a stereotypical "Gen Xer" whose reached the point of extreme cynicism (amid two+ decades of war, political circuses, and now... a largely manufactured "crisis" on the back of a very real, potentially crafted contagion). Words like "patriotism" feel like ashes in the mouth of a starving man at times.
Deep within however, I know what I know...and when push comes to shove; it generally anchors me to the facts. The prescient fact, in this case, is that Americans are largely ignorant of the threats; physical, economic, and ideological that reside just beyond our sphere of control. General Smedley Butler was a brave and honorable man...and he was right, but what disgusted him may have been only part of a much broader, much more ominous reality.
I'll put myself on report here; I'm a stereotypical "Gen Xer" whose reached the point of extreme cynicism (amid two+ decades of war, political circuses, and now... a largely manufactured "crisis" on the back of a very real, potentially crafted contagion). Words like "patriotism" feel like ashes in the mouth of a starving man at times.
Deep within however, I know what I know...and when push comes to shove; it generally anchors me to the facts. The prescient fact, in this case, is that Americans are largely ignorant of the threats; physical, economic, and ideological that reside just beyond our sphere of control. General Smedley Butler was a brave and honorable man...and he was right, but what disgusted him may have been only part of a much broader, much more ominous reality.
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Having spending much of my life in the military and private industry traveling around the globe, never have I seen anyplace that is so blessed as those living in the USA.
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Col Joseph Lenertz
Exactly. And only those who have travelled broadly (and not just to the "nice" places) can fully understand that.
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