Wars (and/or Police actions)

 Even before this country was a country, we were involved in a war.  My 6X grandfather fought in the Revolutionary War, and all but one of the family tree males following him serving our country proudly, but I HATE WARS! By count, the United States has been involved in 10 wars and/or police actions, including the Revolutionary War. Our country does this because? Oil, greed, power, to stop our enemies or aggressors, probable progression of communism. Who knows for sure. The media and government will tell us their reasons and maybe we'll believe it or not. I do know the losers are our young soldiers, their families, civilians, property owners, and neighboring countries.

Don't get me wrong, I hate wars, but I would die defending this country, for a good reason. I just believe we, as a country, get involved into too many other countries affairs and end up losing our soldiers and tax dollars for a nothing cause. We have battles in this country that should be a higher priority than theirs. Like Covid, drugs, shootings, poverty, suicides and much more.

I served during Vietnam, and the Afghanistan War reminds me ALOT of Vietnam. Let's compare.

In Afghanistan, we took over from Russia. In Vietnam, we took over from France.

2,448 US lives lost.                                    58,220 US lives lost

Spent 20 years.                                          Spent from 1954 - 1974  20 years

$2 Trillion spent                                          $176 billion spent

weapons and equipment left $$$$              weapons and equipment left $$$$

Since 1776, the US has been in a war 37.7 years and lost 1,348,063 US soldiers, not including US civilian losses. My calculator started smoking when I tried to add up the amount of money that was spent on all wars, JUST for the United States, not including other countries involved and their lives loss. (Stats according to USA Today and Britannia Encyclopedia) 

I understand why we went after Osama Bin Laden, and fought Japan and Germany, and fought back against England, Spain. But like I tell everyone, get the facts straight before you act. We have attacked countries before we got our facts straight and correct information. It has cost us dearly, in lives, injuries, trauma and trillions of dollars.

While the previous administration told us, "Everything is going well", it really was not. Our politicians like like to boost their own egos and legacies. While our government model is good, it is NOT perfect.  That is why voting is so important, and getting the facts is too. The media gives you their views and they are ALL bias. Be smart, check the facts, re-check the facts and listen to the professionals who do the fact-checking before you vote.

One last statistic, Covid 19 has killed more people than ANY war in history. That is a FACT! Get vaccinated!!!

Stay safe.