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This year’s national election campaign features a pair of candidates of one party pounding an incessant drumbeat of change. What change?
Domestically it’s the same old promises to “appropriate billions” for feel-good, “nanny state” social engineering. There aren’t enough smokers in the world to dragoon into paying the necessary taxes to fund this socialistic pie in the sky.
Militarily, there seems to be a “bug-out sweepstakes” going on. A race to see who can force victorious American troops to withdraw in the face of the enemy faster. There have even been proposals to withdraw to Kuwait and establish a “rapid- reaction force” there so we could go back into Iraq and fight for the same ground we already have boots on.
What sense would that make?
If one of these people gains the White House, I want to see how they justify to the GIs why they threw in the towel on them when they were ahead in the 15th round.
In fairness, I suppose one of the liberal candidates is too young to have paid much attention to the choppers being pushed off the carrier decks on April 30, 1975.
The other probably clicked her ruby sandals together, put a Big Brother and the Holding Company on the box, shook her love beads and danced a jig.
Don’t do this to the finest fighting forces in the world, twice.