So our forefathers rescued the world from a force of almost eternal darkness, a Germany lost in it's own narrative. Operation Overlord was launched on the occupied French coastline, landing at first light, taking the war to the Germans, setting it in their very lap.
Some 80 years on, America is almost lost in its own narrative, playing a global game in which countries like China have awakened to the fact that, in China's case, American foreign policy is geared towards minimizing China's influence. And then the Chinese rank-and-file, the populace, will hate the United States.
A world of subsequent half-hearted moral prevarications and interventions, adventures in foreign lands, with the core of America mined for fodder for the killing machine; it was all policy, and the dirty fingernails never seemed to much intermix with the clean fingernails: it was almost like we had an aristocratic ruling class, plebs and patricians.
Call it, "a subsequent serious of unpopular interventions". A failed nation-building campaign in the 2000s, the Korean stalemate, the guerilla fighting in Vietnam. We chose Iraq and Kuwait as pet causes in the 1990s, and then discarded them like ruined laundry.
Not to disrespect the troops; they weren't allowed to win as the politics shifted. The U.S. fighting force is among the best, of course, but, by George, give them a clear motivation and do not send them into wars hatched by policy thinktanks.
The most courageous.
Everyday men, many of them, in times of conscription, and filled with the fighting spirit. A cross-section of much of the best of the nation, our fighting forces. Citizen soldiers.
God bless the troops.
God save the troops.
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