I am not saying it is accurate, it is a yube tube short after all. 900 KIAs are manageable to pressure families not to disclose, 50,000 KIAs are not, again, 5000 wounded, sent to Germany is not an unmanageable number to keep under wraps for a while. I was in the first Bosnia interlude and you didn’t hear a squeak from a rabid mouse in the media or the families or the government. Same with Vietnam spilling over into Laos and Cambodia in the first year or two of US in that secret escalation. If the government wants to keep facts under wraps, it can do it well until the first whistleblowers, the first bereaved family decides to spill the beans.
Seems also a NATO thing to conceal KIA’s as some French, German and British solders deemed to have died from “Training Accidents”, a couple in “vehicle accidents” and so on have been revealed otherwise when Russia returned their bodies from Ukrainian battlefields.
Americans are VERY Casualty adverse and the concealing of KIA’s or renaming them “training accidents” is sadly realistic.
So the alternative is to continue to have numerous acts if terrorism perpetrated on Americans.
How many American citizens have been killed or injured for the past 45-50 years?
Yeap, this fella definitely needs to learn a lesson about who we are really fighting for. If he thinks putting his head in the sand is a sound strategy, then he needs to “man the gates” until the threat vanishes.
900 dead but nobody knows? 900 families that have not posted diddly poop on any social media anywhere?
5000 families with wounded sons and daughters being treated in radio silence in Germany. ??
Yah, ok.
I am not saying it is accurate, it is a yube tube short after all. 900 KIAs are manageable to pressure families not to disclose, 50,000 KIAs are not, again, 5000 wounded, sent to Germany is not an unmanageable number to keep under wraps for a while. I was in the first Bosnia interlude and you didn’t hear a squeak from a rabid mouse in the media or the families or the government. Same with Vietnam spilling over into Laos and Cambodia in the first year or two of US in that secret escalation. If the government wants to keep facts under wraps, it can do it well until the first whistleblowers, the first bereaved family decides to spill the beans.
Seems also a NATO thing to conceal KIA’s as some French, German and British solders deemed to have died from “Training Accidents”, a couple in “vehicle accidents” and so on have been revealed otherwise when Russia returned their bodies from Ukrainian battlefields.
Americans are VERY Casualty adverse and the concealing of KIA’s or renaming them “training accidents” is sadly realistic.
So the alternative is to continue to have numerous acts if terrorism perpetrated on Americans.
How many American citizens have been killed or injured for the past 45-50 years?
Yeap, this fella definitely needs to learn a lesson about who we are really fighting for. If he thinks putting his head in the sand is a sound strategy, then he needs to “man the gates” until the threat vanishes.
Trump says we’ve won. As King Pyrrhus said, another win like that and we’re done for.