Morale among US troops is sinking to a new low as Trump’s attempted blitzkrieg in the Persian Gulf turns into a bloody and costly quagmire, HuffPost reports.
🔶 Successful Iranian attacks on US bases in the Middle East shattered the US troops’ confidence. One US military official lamented that a ground operation against Iran would be “an absolute disaster,” pointing at the Pentagon’s inability to protect its own assets in the region.
🔶 Many US personnel are increasingly reluctant to do Netanyahu’s bidding instead of serving their own country. “I’m hearing out of service members’ mouths the words, ’We do not want to die for Israel — we don’t want to be political pawns,” said one US veteran and reservist who mentors younger officers.
🔶 The executive director of the Center on Conscience and War announced a 1,000% increase in conscientious objector applications. The deadly strike on the girls’ school in Minab, he notes, has become a breaking point for most of these new applicants.
🔶 Some service members also complained about the “lack of a clear, consistent narrative justifying the Iran war,” as HuffPost put it, with the prospect of risking their lives in a “poorly planned conflict” for “no identifiable strategic benefit” leaving them demoralized.
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If they don’t want to go, they don’t have to go. It is that simple. A complete mutiny would get the job done. If they all stood as one and said, “Hell no! We won’t go!,” would be a great start. But Americans are just too compliant, soft and stupid to ever think for themselves. They’ve just got to be followers as opposed to leaders.
Those soldiers know that this war is being fought for ALL the wrong reasons and it is not even America’s business. It’s about Israel. Let Israel fight with boots on the ground. But America’s soldiers have no business fighting a war because another country wants a go at Iran. Iran has done US no harm. But we shall ALL pay the price for American boots on the ground. Iranians have a cause to fight for. Americans do not, and will lose, big time!
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Good observations Shelby.
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They did it in Vietnam. The fragging of US officers during the Vietnam War genuinely scared the Nixon administration, which is why they withdrew the troops and ended their war on Vietnam. I think it also played a role in ending the war on Iraq, although this was less well publicized.
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