Plus, americans are also victims, trillions that could be spent to give jobs, education, healthcare, housing and efficient police to americans, wasted on a pointless war.
They know they're wrong & guilty for all the mess in the 20th century. A million Iraqis died during the war, but how about after the war? And how about in Afghanistan, Libya or other countries they've been involved in directly or not. Someone needs to be bring up to justice. We all knew who they are
I'm an Iraq combat veteran. I'm also a graduate student; four years from becoming a doctor of psychology. I left active duty in 2011; It's now 2023. I've made over several attempts on my life. No one will ever understand the negative psychological impacts on veterans in these war eras; OIF/OEF.
I'm so sorry for everything you've gone through and still going through I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your sacrifice and will be praying for you daily. Please remember we need you here and we love you, God bless you
You let pissants type of people playing mind games tricked people just to see what them new recruits can do this is outrageous don't let people covet you your family only believing God healed you your family fools
Jew Roman type of people from every nation playing mind games tricked people to sin addiction disease 12 25 30 they go to purgatory hole in the heart as big as embryo 8 25 31 Buddha is born Potlatch Idaho
Some people are obsessed with martyrdom and want to die in battle or on camera. Some people have a mentality to join gangs, criminals and occults. USA rescued millions of people from slavery but some people just aren't grateful. Jesus still has a plan. He brings His wrath to change their mentality. Its a last resort since the blessings didn't work. Wait for it. America has a destiny and purpose Genesis 12.
Those who want to repent in Jesus name Acts 2:38, receive the Holy Spirit in your heart. The conviction of the Holy Spirit guides you out of sin continuously and forever.
They need you to be poor, so you always in need of them and you can fight their wars. Third world or first world it doesn't matter we normal ppl are like soldiers in chess
Antiwhiteism prevents us in the West for advocating for our own wellbeing, and the antiwhites in charge take advantage of our compassion to make themselves rich and ship us to foreign countries to be murdered.
I'm scared by this comment.... Btw I'm from Philippines..... I hope our strong President Duterte will do his best by this kind of treats like China!!!! PresidentDuterte 40000x Your the best 😘
My grandpa tried to Commit suicide 2 years ago from ptsd from the Vietnam war he has been stuck behind a bottle for 53 years . Different wars same suffering .
@@elnegro3388 Simplistic tribal squabbling is exactly what has brought us to the current state of the Union. We need to open our eyes and see that it simply does not matter whether blue or red. Biden has been pilloried for pulling out of Afghanistan " THE ADMINISTRATION SHOULDVE HANDLED IT BETTER" what a troop surge, a little longer? Bush started it, Obama continued it, included Yemen and Libya, ramped up drone strikes and Trump couldnt get the DoD to go along with withdrawal. This is bigger than your diagnosis would suggest.
My brother was there..😢 he was at one of the towers that exploded in Iraq and he barely made it; now he’s dealing with PTSD 😢 he’s highly suicidal…. Don’t let your family members ever be in the military it’s the worst thing it can happened… they come home as a different human being and just being suicidal 24/7
That's the case with Zus Army dear.. Not every military in the world is like that.. Only 3 armies in the world whose soldiers suicide ratio is the highest.. USA, ISRAEL & INDIA.. Coz all 3 of them militaries AR einvilved in immoral activities which steals and snatches away the peace of mind, honor & grace of a soldier from him and give him guilty conscious and PTSD in return.
@@shanefaulkner8586 They most certainly have dreams, but the THC/CBC amplifies the capacity of our brain to forget short-term information, thus causing them to not remember their dreams.
@Recovery Adventures no it's totally fine to hear your opinion! Think about this, America spent $300 million/day for 20 years straight and citizens here can't afford the electric bill every month. Struggling with everything financial?
There was an agenda but the fact is US can't do what needs to be done; to "win" in Afghanistan or against drugs means unfiltered warfare (act like Sadam or stalin)
Looking at this from a Muslim perspective is confusing and just heartbreaking. Soo many nations destroyed and the Americans want to be the victims. I feel pity for them but that doesn’t absolve them of anything and there are always consequences.
I was stationed in Afghanistan for some time in the province of Ghazni part of Task Force „Biały Orzeł”. Met a lot of amazing Afghan people were kind it's one of the reasons why my faith in Allah became more powerful Alhamdulillah ❤️
The leaders of Islam is Iran attempting hostile takeover of foreign governments. They make you think martyrdom makes you more spiritual so they can manipulate you. Americans get up everyday to go to work creating honest jobs and fighting corruption so our children will get out of sin. We learn tangible skills in fashion, manufacturing, Healthcare, agriculture because we are focused on the future. You see death and destruction and you aren't afraid because you have no reason to live. Iran has no plans to do anything with the land and people they already have.
Violent occult regimes use multiple strategies including forced malnutrition, honor beatings, female circumcision, child abuse, bribery, extortion, racketeering to make people docile followers.
When you have a whole nation that does not know that heat from jet fuel cannot melt steel and cause concrete to crumble in 2 hours then you have a problem that cannot be fixed.
I wonder: if America stops being seeing itself as the world police and thus stop interfering in other countries, it would not have created so many enemies for itself. It is better to clean up your own backyard than being busy body. Fortunately, it is not my country.
We can't win either way. If we get involved we are bullying and interfering. If we don't do anything then we are guilty of standing by while crimes are committed - which is like condoning or even facilitating those crimes. Whatever we do we will create enemies and allies for the same action or inaction. Fortunately, it's not your country but we do appreciate your constructive criticism.
LOL!!! His great grand father made fortune by selling thousands of tons of opium to China in late Qing Dynasty period (alongside with Queen Victoria's British Empire). And his grand father collaborated with N A Z I Germany regime throughout the entire WWII. They both lived long and died rich and glorious. Nothing would happen to him.
I am a British veteran of Afghanistan. I was there 2009 to 2010. I took part in operation Moshtarak. I knew then it would fail. I knew the Afghan government would fail. I thought they would last a few years. The government was corrupt and rotten. They were not worth fighting and dying for. So I don't blame the Afghan army for surrendering. You Americans allowed them to be dirty and you threw money at them. You screwed this up. This is your Suez crisis. Afghanistan is known as the graveyard of empires. Your tombstone with USA 1776 to 2020.
AW, all war objectives were achieved early on.. the goal was never to destroy all terrorist in the region but rather to suppress them from using the nation as a base to attack foreign nation... had the mil objective Bern to win by defeating the talibsn and other terror groups it would involve invading Pakistan and using unfiltered warfare thus basically leveling the mountain and everyone in them, taking out ever taliban support and person cooperating with them... obviously western nations don't use this kind of excessive force but to deal with the Afghan situation that is what's needed... Afghan ppl are the reason for its downfall not the west but the ppl chose infighting and division over unity... to establish unity in Afghanistan would require everything Sadam did as US acting like babysitters to ignorant ppl is not the way
@@jaybelle1909 Thanks for responding I think I was having an anger fit and I was venting. Its easy to be angry at our political situation at the minute. It doesn't matter what country you live in we are all suffering. I don't get a vote in the US elections but Joe Biden is really hurting us and Boris Johnson allows it. The interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan was at a huge cost and we have squandered so much out there. The same people have provoked a war with Russia and are going to lose it
Well like most US wars - there isn't a logical answer but if you really don't know why Afghanistan was invaded than you missed the major irony of this documentary - particularly in the 'domestic terrorism' portion. The US invaded Afghanistan for their supposed 'war on terror' following the 9/11 attack on the twin towers and the pentagon. Bush was alleging the former government (the Taliban) was allowing the country to become a breeding ground for terrorism, which is how Osama Bin Laden was able to carry out his attacks. Which is ironic in itself for various reasons. Fast forward 20+ years the Taliban is back in power and the US has had a major rise in domestic terrorism related to white supremacy ideology rather than extremist jihadists. In one way you could count the war as a major success (a joke).. It's also had huge spikes in mass shootings (which could be seen as terrorism incidents) and that's caused by an entirely different issue, domestic politics.
Those poor civillians in Afghanistan & Iraq were asking the same question. What did they do to deserve so many deaths, home and countries destroyed,? But at least they died fighting for their homeland.
@@bpastorbIf there was any country for the US to invade, it should’ve been Saudi - seeing as most of the attackers where from there. Of course, we know why they didn’t attack them.
Reading the title I suddenly remember one part of Vice's "This is what Winning Looks Like" documentary. At 50:15 an afghan elder said "we will survive, but the American will take the war back to their home."
General Wesley Clark: The US will attack 7 countries in 5 years ruclips.net/video/UcWs4TFSjrY/видео.html ruclips.net/video/gTbg11pCwOc/видео.html ruclips.net/video/TY2DKzastu8/видео.html
@@penonton4260 The entire thing, from 9/11 forward was planned carefully for maximum profit. Rockefellers want the oil in Iraq, the vast oil reserves in Afghan, AND they want the oil in Iran. They used nuclear weapons all over Iraq, Afghan, as well as Syria; and sold them to Israel and UK too. The populations of those countries will die over the next two decades from birth defects, cancers and diseases related to enriched uranium and depleted uranium, just as the troops exposed. And, you are close, Afghan gave an agency complete control of the opium trade which is trafficked by contractors to Mexico, laced with fentanyl and trafficked to the US to demoralize/kill citizens. It is deliberate; it has been this way since Vietnam; they wanted control of the opium nearby.
Your U.S. tax dollars at work. The money could have been given back to taxpayers and used for domestic programs for education and health. The human suffering on all sides is astronomical. Those burn pits hurt the native populations also !
"Raise crows and they will take out your eyes" is the moral of this history. It's very similar to what they did training the talibans including Osama Bin Laden at the time of the soviet invasion. At the end they hunted him like a rat
The US and my Country, Great Britain, don't look after their service personnel very well..... it's absolutely atrocious in my opinion. The only people who do care or understand are people who have served themselves, you have the VA, we have the Royal British Legion, SSAFA, Help for Heroes, Combat Stress, Forgotten Heroes but these ones in my Country are all funded by donations.... the British Government does not do nearly enough. P.S Did you know that in Britain, people donate more money to bloody animal charities than any other ones, including the above mentioned, which sickens me.
Gooner 72 blind obedience is the darkness of you and it show dark side of your heart is. For your humanity to shine MUST HAVE THE BRAVERY & COURAGES TO WHAT ARE GOOD FOR HUMANITY IN THE DESPERATE TIME OF NEED. The time of need define a person. Blind obedience does NOT MAKE YOU A GOOD PERSON! Hanuman Battambang born 1969 in the Vietnam War, Serviced in US Navy Desert Sand and Desert Storm.
This vid is sheer propaganda at every single turn, the Only truthful part in it is the fact vets are mistreated as seen in a bad light... though this video shows struggling vets it bashes vets at every turn falsely laying them as broken, hateful, violent, criminals who hate foreigners, muslims, democracy, law and order... it paints wars in iraq and Afghanistan as unjust pointless wars... this video it absolutely sickening
@@wineverything7529 any human life is precious no doubt, but what can the world do. We all knew what or who did it, and there's no action taken. Only ordinary people talks about it and those who can make a difference is silent
The military industrial complex by General Smedley Butler. This book or on youtube tells the story of waste of lives, and American taxes throughout modern history. A must watch
2 thoughts come to mind: 1. Looks like 'Rambo, First Blood' as veterans faced all sorts of PTSD and injustice at home 2. Recall my daughter who had served in Afghanistan and Iraq describing the place as a gigantic open air toilet. With the burn pit coverage, now I understand.
@BitBlueBalls lol I don’t have student loans! Wow. Low selfish esteem. So quick to attack others. I was simply making analysis. 1.5 trillions created many doctors and engineers, and how much of 8 trillions created anything?
I have been crying for these Veterans and those in combat for years. I saw Vietnam all over again. So many young lives have been sacrificed for our fellow man. I felt that if we stayed over there, a whole generation of people will be wiped out. We need our youth home. We need to heal, become healthy and whole again. The government needs to spend that money now on their Vets and give back what was taken from them. I pray that we will regain our strength again and live in peace.
You cry for the american soldiers who died but completely disregard the millions of innocents that have been killed and displaced by the wars based on lies and imperialistic concerns of the U.S. Myopic people like you, simply put, have no idea whats going on!
@@tonybarrios5045 No. I was merely addressing the plight of our soldiers. I think all wars are horrible and my heart goes out to all those who suffer because of it. We may one day experience that suffering.
@@omennemo8844 then to be fair you should include the lives of the farmers in Afghanistan, the families in Iraq(civilians) were killed by the hundreds of thousands and the women and children in villages in Vietnam who were bombed with napalm and thrown out of their villages, the people in Syria who suffer so much death and devastation as well. Your boys can go and do go home. They cant. They live there and have suffered more than the soldiers you cry over. These innocents deserve your tears more than the soldiers who were trained to kill and sent there. Tell me, have the Afghans invaded the beaches of Calufornia? Did the Vietnamese parachute into Oregon and start shooting people? Did the Iraqis bomb NY city. Ridiculous right! Well, that is exactly what your soldiers have done in those countries and all under false pretenses. I wish you could see it from their perspective so you will know who really suffered in the wars perpetuated by America! And mind you these were done under false pretenses!
@@tonybarrios5045 I did my share of protesting during the Vietnam War. All I can do now is pass the word. It's up to the young folks all around the world now. I feel that no matter what we say, the governments (not only in America) will do what they want.
These people speak about immigrants, but who are the immigrants and who America belongs too? Base on authentic history it belongs to the native Indian people and also the blacks because they were brought as slave and has been slaved for over 300 years by the very same people who claiming the land which are European who brought the slaves and kill the native people. That's the reason America is so divided and so many blood shared because they build the nation and wright their constitution on the behalf of slavery and genocide of the native people.
Everything comes with a price, the important question is has the US learned anything from its wars and proxy wars around the world? Has the common US citizens understood and realize that they are the ones paying the price? From what we see, I highly doubt this and its the US people that are the ones paying the price for electing their leaders that start these wars and unfortunately this vicious cycles continues again after sufficient time for them to forget and we saw that from the Vietnam war and more than half a decade later the Afghan war.
Actually there are those of us(US citizens) that very much disagree with the choices our government makes regarding getting involved in other country"s business. As far as presidential elections, our votes don't matter! The electoral college ultimately decides who is President of the US(Bush & Trump are evidence of that). Trump was very strategic when he made the deal with the Taliban. I'm sure he knew the ramifications and did that to help him with another run for President in 2024. He is a disgrace to the US. Too bad he can't be banished from the US.😁. It is shameful what our government ordered our military to do during WW2(Hiroshima & Nagasaki), the Vietnam conflict and Afghanistan. Innocent lives lost is NEVER acceptable IMO.
@@talesfromtheleashexpatdogl1426 - I really sympathize with the lack of options and choice. But lets face it US spend US$6.2T on wars after 9/11 and u know what US6.2T can do? It can have modern infrastructure, subsidize healthcare/education etc... yet US keep electing leaders from Democrats to Republicans to continue the war all over the world for more than 2 decades and that isnt taking into account the other smaller wars in Somalia, Hondurus, Panama, Nicaragua, etc... that was started after WW2. The funny part is that all this money pouring into wars are your tax payer money and your system of government is suppose to be the true form of democracy elected by the people to work for the people... isnt this a paradox?
@@albertwong1919 it's a shitshow I agree but you can't blame the citizens for the role of the government. Are Cuban's at fault for their government? Are Afghanis to be blamed for their politics? Ethiopians? Yemeni? No, none of these people are at fault. We don't choose where we are born!!? And again, OUR VOTES DON'T MATTER. If you were born and raised in the US, then you'd know that. FYI, I left the US and moved abroad just to escape the BS.
@@albertwong1919 I don't know who thinks the US is the epicenter of democracy. Obviously, most US citizens will object to that. It's more like a police state!!!
Why can't all "WAR" just "STOP"????? I have so very much respect and admiration for our American military people and veterans of past wars, including the families who have lost loved ones. May God always bless them all and the ones who are no longer with us. 🥰
“War” has been around since recorded times. Man will never change.. there will always be a war.. and there will always be suffering. This is the way of this world.
Seems like the majority of locals knew Americans would eventually walk away and leave them to the Taliban. The locals that worked with us thought they'd be evacuated to America. What an absolute disgusting waist of resources and American/Afghanistan lives.
SHAME on them IIRC But from what I recall the whole piece aired without ever once mentioning it's medicines name or even regarding original shamanistic ritual let alone the active ingredient DMT. they called it Plant-Based Therapy, but it requires a guide and so much more then just a plant for MOST/MANY people to achieve the hyper-healing self realization/actualization life-altering Shame on them the kind of experience he had. Or did he use "IB_____E...
So which version of Islam solve Covid19? Or was it other religions? It's sad to see people still high on this opium of the masses. Stop fighting with one another over religion, race, or something else because you want to feel superior to others.
@@randomlifts founder of mRNA covid 19 vaccine are Muslim couples by the way. Father of modern medicine is bin sina (avicenna) algebra (al-jabr) algoritma from Mr Al-Khawarizmi that enables complex mathematical calculations today. So what is your point.
@@randomlifts islam is a way of life, not a specialized subject of study. So the argument of COVID solver doesn't apply. Whoever thrives in the relevant field of study would succed in finding a cure - irrespective of his/her belief. Islam teaches humility and equality as a human, so the argument of feeling superior is invalid as well. The ways of Muslims may not be reflection of the true teachings of Islam, and this applies to even other religions out there. Though shrinking Islam to a religion is not fair - but that's another story. As far as versions are concerned, yes the implicational and political differences have caused variance, even differences, even conflicts within muslims but that was Muslims' actions rather than Islamic actions. But note that all the versions are united on one thing, there is no prophet after Muhammad (PBUH) the very belief the subject group is seen to be out of the bounds. Simple.
PBS has, on Aug 20, 2021, just re-premiered its 2003 documentary -- "Truth, War and Consequences (full documentary) | FRONTLINE" on RUclips. It would be interesting to see how the whole thing was viewed back then.
@@jaybelle1909 , I surely find this video and the contents thereof rather dubious. Also find it dubious why it was re-aired in August of 2021 (as opposed to why not Jan 2021, or 2022, or 2018, etc.), when it was first aired in 2003. I merely managed to put it more courteously.
Well, I think the American are the richest in the world. Most of the money your governments spend on international policing rather than on their own citizens . Yet still look at celebrities, cosmetic doctors and so on ………
They are the world police, American is on the path downhill, a lot of debts, keep printing money to keep their economic going, some days is going out of gas and their economic eventually collapse.
I'm a psychotherapist and see a lot of ex military people walk in my door. Humans are not made to kill humans, with the exception of the psychopathic personality. You might dehumanise as you have been taught, but sooner or later something (and it can be seemingly unrelated), will cause you to struggle and/or snap. It's essentially "shell shock"
We're out of Afghanistan. We left in a despicable manner. It is done. Now, how about providing a higher income, better services & more benefits to our vets & active service members....instead of CUTTING THEM? The US government needs to get its priorities straight.
You wanna know why/ (how even after all that US military training ) they gave up without a fight when the taliban swept in??? Its because they don’t know what they’re fighting for !!! Ps. 30000 US veteran suicides... that’s insane! what did they do? What did they see over there?
You're kinda assuming vets mostly kill themselves over regret when that is a tiny tiny fraction of vets offing themselves... it's everything beyond just warfare such as things like witnessing how ppl in other nations wrongly treat each other... mostly witnessing death of all ppl even your enemies, seeing your friends die, seeing civilians die, seeing taliban strap children with bo mb vest and told to walk over to US forces; it's regret from shooting kids who were forced to shoot at US forces or being paid $5 to throw grenades at US forces; it's witnessing civilian lives lost do to taliban using them as shields or agfani informants giving wrong reports, or taliban spys pretending to be informants to cause US to hit civilian targets; it's the trauma from constant gun and bomb attacks, constant treat that at and second of any day you, your brother, or civilians could be killed; it's the stress of taliban forces blowing up a massive crowd of pp then blame the US and for ignorant ppl in the rest of the world just assuming these false claims are true even in the US ppl wrongly criticizing vets of murdering civilians because they heard or saw some fake report or ignorant ppl thinking just because US was there and ppl die means all deaths are US vets fault even when it's Afghanis and Iraqis killing each other... again only a tiny tiny fraction of soldiers go "rouge" due to all the stresses mentioned and as such go on unjust rampages then later have regrets... Even pre war soldiers and soon to become solder had some level of trauma do to witnessing all the atrocities occurring and had occurred in those nation thus why we went in
@@jaybelle1909 who told u these things?? no military personnel on the planet comes home from war and blows thier own head off out of regret for witnessing how other nations wrongly treat each other for goodness sake! read ur post back to urself......most of what ur saying while unintentional makes a complete mockery of the US military and how they operate. soldiers would not just watch while a child get bombs strapped to it and sent on its merry way, they'd haven taken out the taliban soldier b4 the bomb got anywhere near the child. its the stress of informants giving wrong reports, or taliban spys pretending to be informants to cause US to hit civilian targets.....they are NEVER going 2 hit ANY target based solely on the word of informants/spys. it's the stress of taliban forces blowing up a massive crowd of pp then blame the US and for ignorant ppl in the rest of the world just assuming these false claims are true.... well i have personally seen video footage in leaked files published by wikileaks of 2 separate incidents when multiple civilians were purposely shot from helicopters. iv also seen an interview of the father of marine that had served 2 tours in iraq and commited suicide bk home...he'd told his dad some of the things they were ordered to do out there. for example...soldiers on patrol come across 2 small, terrified and obviously starving children, alone. picking tadpoles from a dirty puddle to eat. they reported to superior and awaited instruction.....order came back to shoot them. nearly100 years fighting endless wars for these souless blood thirsty warmongering profiteers ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
It’s doesn’t what kind of medical issues these veterans has. They should be aproved and taken off for the rest of their life. For god sakes. They did enough for giving their life for us. It’s not just physically but mentally these men and women veterans are suffering and the government can’t just ignored that.
Thank you CNA for this documentary. I hope one featuring the voices of Afghanis will also be made as well. I understand that this is about the voices of ex-US soldiers who fought in the middle east and their voices are important (even those gun toting, "muh rights" middle aged militia uncles who seem to be cosplaying). I also think about the Afghans and Iraqis caught in a war that was built on lies, that destroyed their homes and killed their families. For those people, they have no homes to go back to and sometimes no family. Perhaps the next time US tries to convince the world of a new enemy, we would be just a bit more skeptical about them manufacturing consent for yet another war and conflict.
The problem with the US convincing the world of another enemy? Well contrary to popular believe, rulers of democratic nations no longer need majority support to do anything. They just need to convince 10 to 20% of the population to support whatever idiocy they planning on. The remaining 40% is already banked in thanks to partisan politics. Imagine being registered card carrying members of a political party, often a tradition over multiple generations in a family.
“We made a mistake” that is the truth the politics know it but refuse to take it in action good for people not only USA but Iraq and Afghanistan. They choose good for themselves as fame and power
Why TF are we worried bout other foreign people when we have our VETERANS to worry but, we need to attend to our veterans first cuz they just got bak from a 20 year war.
Nothing angers me more then the fact that we just gave that country back to the terrorists all the guy’s we lost over there died for nothing once we pulled out Rest In Peace
Given that the taliban was the government in power when the US went in, perhaps that is the government of the people, although it’s the government the US wanted
Here's some perspective for everyone concerning the War in Afghanistan. It cost the United States $2.313 trillion dollars to fight the war. The total number of enemy combatants both Taliban and Al-Qaeda killed was 85,791 It cost the United States taxpayer $27 million dollars to kill each of those combatants. And in the end, President Joe Biden handed everything back to the Taliban including $85 billion dollars worth of US military equipment and weapons. I wonder if it was worth it? I did not include the cost of American and our allies' lives because in my opinion even losing one of our own soldiers was not worth the cost.
USA and NATO allies are guilty of war crimes against humanity when they waged war on innocent Afghan people in 1970s overthrowing young revolutionary government . Forcing Soviet union to get involved , thousands of Soviet citizens lost their lives fighting this NATO imposed war. Hundreds of thousands of Afghanis have unnecessarily lost their lives. Tens of thousands of NATO troops have suffered ..... Let's pray for peace and common sense friendship amongst nations on this golden planet earth
But the genes of peace do not exist in the USA and Nato. The USA was not born of peace but of violence, massacres, lies and theft of the natives' land and natural resources. Nato was formed for war.
Though the war on Terror was supposed to get the bad guys and then nation build Iraq and Afghanistan as typical western server states opposed to ' terror's. But these efforts were so awful, in the end, it seems the whole point really was to sow chaos, discord, and trauma throughout the middle east. By traumatizing the middle east, it makes the cost of attacks on the US so high that it's less likely to happen again. So even if all the nation building failed, the chaos and trauma would at least deter future attacks since so many suffered.
I watched Vietnam kill my uncle 40 years after he left the war. He suffered poisoning from agent orange, like many others do. It only took 6 months from diagnosis for him to loose 100 pounds from all the cancers. He only did what was expected of him. My heart goes out to every single man and woman who thought they were doing the right thing for their country. It is so unfortunate that all this hate has been created or brought to the surface. I believe we need our militias to keep our government in check, but not to spread hate on other nationalities.
Go search with this string --> Agent Orange + birth defect + Vietnam. Just the thumbnails alone will make anyone throw up. Your uncle was a rather unfortunate collateral. You stated, " I believe we need our militias to keep our government in check, but not to spread hate on other nationalities." But do you know that marc rubio was ranting to impeach/court martial General Milley for having stopped two imminent wars and save the US from Donald, the Groper?
This video is sheer propaganda at every single turn; this should be obvious to any sane person but if your just ignorant I highly recommend actually studying all matters fully and in proper context as this video it utterly sickening and is wrongly and falsely bashing vets at every turn
you wrote "My heart goes out to every single man and woman who thought they were doing the right thing for their country." my question to you is, was the US under attack?
@@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 to my understanding we have only ever been attacked on 9/11 and at pearl harbor so my answer is no. I'd like to think we kind of "police the world" and help those that really need it. But I would be a fool to believe that. War exist for control and power and to make the rich richer. The men and women who serve in the US military, I believe do it for all the right reasons. Unfortunately they are used, like the Russians military to protect the interest of those in charge meaning they die in vain.
40:28 this dude just admitted to at least one war crime followed by a felony.. His cute little hate filled speech defines genocide, and i'm pretty sure planning a terrorist attack is a felony just as much as carrying it out is..
@@biggtv8584 yeah. That's why they haven't released all that footage. It will show these ppl were let in. As if it were okay. Not everyone who was there was there with bad intentions. There were morons. No doubt but it wasn't an "insurrection" that's laughable
@@TheGhostOfMichaelJackson notice how they claim 10% of violent offender ls were vets when out of hundreds of ppl who went in capital only about a dozen acted violently thus means only a couple ppl who commit a crime were vets; so 2 to 3 ppl out of over a hundred thousand ppl attending committed a crime yet vets are to blame... this entire video is propaganda at every single turn the Only truthful thing they mention is that vets are very often mistreated and neglected; even with that throughout thus entire video it is Solely wrongly and falsely blaming vets... not one single person in a capital committed a serious crime save for the guard who murdered an unarmed woman who wasn't posing a threat
This is extreme propaganda at every turn. The Only honest thing they mention was vet very often get neglected or mistreated but even yet throughout yhe entire video they falsely bash vets and push blatantly false accusations against them and patriots... this is not journalism and its absolutely sickening to watch... any intelligent person can see through all the things pushed in this propaganda vid; but if you're just ignorant that's fine but I recommend educating you're on all subjects mentioned
The US military industrial complex-political partnership know very well the damages their endless war brings internally and externally but they'd rather sweep it under the rug because their profits outweigh anything and everything else.
America 🇺🇸 don’t belong in war With Middle East . America leaders must have a good relationship & peace . Protect our borders Stop war & honest help for humanity. Prayers for all loss of life. 🙏🙏🙏🇺🇸🦅☮️🙏🙏🙏
Surely, its very costly finanially and emotionally, especially that both wars end up in a disaster, benefitting America's enemies, Iran and China. Some may call it peotic justice.
Afghans spoke to the media demanding USA leave so we did. Not one Afghan official asked USA to stay or expressed their appreciation when we left in April 2021.
What are you talking about ?? Calling Taliban terrorist? They just defending their country, their ppl. America is biggest terrorist country in the world.
@@jimmyk1998How blindfolded you are? Kill political opponents, teachers, women fighting for their right, Hazara, give terrorists a safe haven, use suicide bombers to kill civilians to create an atmosphere of terror. And say they do it for their version of a "peaceful religion". This list can be expanded. Many Muslim around the world call this terrorism too, embarrassing for the great Islam. And even if the US have a terror politics too; that can´t whitewash groups like the Taliban from terrorism.
That said, saying 10% of people involved in Capitol violence isn't saying very much? That's not too much off from the general population statistic, and indeed might even be lower than in the general populace.
In my opinion,Iraq war was unnecessary, but Afghan war was necessary, at least until Osama bin Laden was killed. What other option US had post 9/11 when Taliban refused to handover Osama bin Laden ? I would go further and say that instead of Iraq war, US should have tried surgical missions within Pakistan based on intelligence information, like they did when they killed Osama bin Laden. Wars are not pretty. But sometimes, they are necessary for national security. Other times, they are Warlords' business...
The Taliban didn't refuse to hand over UBL. The USA has repeatedly and conveniently set aside its reputation as a country of laws in its efforts to steal resources it has been unable or unwilling to obtain through normal trade. Afghanistan sits atop vast arrays of mineral and energy resources and more than a few countries have been festering to extract them on the cheap since long before WWII. I feel some compassion for folks who believe wholeheartedly that the US is what it claims it is, an exemplary state to be emulated. It isn't. It is ruled in the same manner all countries and large populations have been for the last ten millennia, wherein a small group of thieving psychopaths manage to gin up some plausible fairy tales to convince the majority of their subjects to look the other way while they(the so-called elites)pick everyone's pockets through elaborate schemes like scapegoating other countries for domestic troubles to justify resource theft that largely benefits those elites. Don't take my word for this. Read all you can, not just what you're told to. amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/14/afghanistan.terrorism5?amp_js_v=a6&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQIUAKwASCAAgM%3D#aoh=17015522596943&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fworld%2F2001%2Foct%2F14%2Fafghanistan.terrorism5
I was in 1 tour in Afghanistan back in 2008. We trained their police and army. And we talked back then that they were to soft as people and soldiers. They only smoke hashish and drank tea from opium pops. And if,God forbid,times go when we need to go out and leave Afghanistan for good-Taliban will took it with no fight! And that was wwway back in 2008. 13 yeats later-that same thing happend!
Long story short this is the reality of service in wartime. Marine Corps uses you for everything you have, you silently deal with the aftermath of dead friends and suicidal friends, snd you become a functioning alcoholic using drugs as soon as he got out so that I could feel something. Good times!
So I caught covid for the first time right before we pulled out and for 2 weeks I fought tooth and nail to understand what was happening and mourning our KIA from my last tour 09-10 and remember the rage and anger I felt. I've held a 9mm to my head once and thank God I didn't pull the trigger and this is not some pity story but those of us who lost brothers and sisters during the 20 year war it feels guilty in a sense to have made it back home.
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“A million Iraqis died during the Irag war, for what?”
A pertinent question only America and its allies can answer, or can they?
For bussiness, blood bussiness.
Plus, americans are also victims, trillions that could be spent to give jobs, education, healthcare, housing and efficient police to americans, wasted on a pointless war.
Bbbbuut weapons of mass destruction
For US dollar dominance, which enables the FED to go Brrrrrrrrr.
They know they're wrong & guilty for all the mess in the 20th century. A million Iraqis died during the war, but how about after the war? And how about in Afghanistan, Libya or other countries they've been involved in directly or not. Someone needs to be bring up to justice. We all knew who they are
I'm an Iraq combat veteran. I'm also a graduate student; four years from becoming a doctor of psychology. I left active duty in 2011; It's now 2023. I've made over several attempts on my life. No one will ever understand the negative psychological impacts on veterans in these war eras; OIF/OEF.
I'm so sorry for everything you've gone through and still going through I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your sacrifice and will be praying for you daily. Please remember we need you here and we love you, God bless you
If you have the chance, please read the Quran. Hopefully it will help. Stay strong, everything that happens has His hikmah.
Convert to Islam. Helps
You let pissants type of people playing mind games tricked people just to see what them new recruits can do this is outrageous don't let people covet you your family only believing God healed you your family fools
Jew Roman type of people from every nation playing mind games tricked people to sin addiction disease 12 25 30 they go to purgatory hole in the heart as big as embryo 8 25 31 Buddha is born Potlatch Idaho
This is a mirror image of Vietnam. Americans need to really learn from these lessons and stop listening to their government’s lies!
Some sheep are now waking up. Our government is a cancer.
Some people are obsessed with martyrdom and want to die in battle or on camera. Some people have a mentality to join gangs, criminals and occults.
USA rescued millions of people from slavery but some people just aren't grateful.
Jesus still has a plan. He brings His wrath to change their mentality. Its a last resort since the blessings didn't work.
Wait for it. America has a destiny and purpose Genesis 12.
If anyone goes to US often, u will know that their media is highly brainwashing n hardly democratic.
@@freshstart4423 Take your pills idiot. That's why the whole world hates you!
Those who want to repent in Jesus name Acts 2:38, receive the Holy Spirit in your heart. The conviction of the Holy Spirit guides you out of sin continuously and forever.
Gotta love how the people of the us “care” about everyone BUT their own people….it’s all bs
"... it’s all bs," where bs is short for brilliant and sexy? 😂😂😂
They need you to be poor, so you always in need of them and you can fight their wars. Third world or first world it doesn't matter we normal ppl are like soldiers in chess
Antiwhiteism prevents us in the West for advocating for our own wellbeing, and the antiwhites in charge take advantage of our compassion to make themselves rich and ship us to foreign countries to be murdered.
@Dingo Rivera dems or GOP make no difference, the writings are on the wall
Main purpose is to channel those national funds to military contractors. Never for peace or security or any protection!
Don't worry in 5 to 10 years we'll be doing this again somewhere else.👍
I'm scared by this comment....
Btw I'm from Philippines.....
I hope our strong President Duterte will do his best by this kind of treats like China!!!!
PresidentDuterte 40000x
Your the best 😘
Next will be Pakistan & Iran. Then Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan... again....
@@exxonvald Don't forget, we really have weapons of mass destruction.
@@exxonvald Try it out,man..see if china dance to USA tune or not
@JitzyJT or Mexico?
My grandpa tried to
Commit suicide 2 years ago from ptsd from the Vietnam war he has been stuck behind a bottle for 53 years . Different wars same suffering .
my mate crucified himself on a needle full of heroin, for most of us, the torture never stops.
Each society has its diceases and his sick.
Like someone said: the problem with democracy is that idiots are very numerous
IDIOTS like republicans yes... They are always getting us into wars...
@@elnegro3388 😂😂😂 that liberal tea must be tasty. Quick, turn on the news so you can ‘know what’s going on in the world’ 🤦🏼♂️🙃
@@elnegro3388 Simplistic tribal squabbling is exactly what has brought us to the current state of the Union. We need to open our eyes and see that it simply does not matter whether blue or red. Biden has been pilloried for pulling out of Afghanistan " THE ADMINISTRATION SHOULDVE HANDLED IT BETTER" what a troop surge, a little longer? Bush started it, Obama continued it, included Yemen and Libya, ramped up drone strikes and Trump couldnt get the DoD to go along with withdrawal. This is bigger than your diagnosis would suggest.
Thats the true definition of demonicrats
The only thing worse than democracy is all the other forms of government. Essentially its the best of a bad situation.
My brother was there..😢 he was at one of the towers that exploded in Iraq and he barely made it; now he’s dealing with PTSD 😢 he’s highly suicidal…. Don’t let your family members ever be in the military it’s the worst thing it can happened… they come home as a different human being and just being suicidal 24/7
Get him some THC and CBD. Heavy thc users do not have dreams or nightmare on a regular basis.
You terorist American
That's the case with Zus Army dear.. Not every military in the world is like that.. Only 3 armies in the world whose soldiers suicide ratio is the highest.. USA, ISRAEL & INDIA.. Coz all 3 of them militaries AR einvilved in immoral activities which steals and snatches away the peace of mind, honor & grace of a soldier from him and give him guilty conscious and PTSD in return.
@@shanefaulkner8586 You're right about that.
@@shanefaulkner8586 They most certainly have dreams, but the THC/CBC amplifies the capacity of our brain to forget short-term information, thus causing them to not remember their dreams.
Can you imagine all these soldiers from all countries saying NO knowing all to well how they will be treated once back home.
The war on terror is a lost and the war on drugs is a lost. We need new leadership and new laws with an agenda.
well said!!
@Recovery Adventures no it's totally fine to hear your opinion! Think about this, America spent $300 million/day for 20 years straight and citizens here can't afford the electric bill every month. Struggling with everything financial?
There was an agenda but the fact is US can't do what needs to be done; to "win" in Afghanistan or against drugs means unfiltered warfare (act like Sadam or stalin)
You have it RFK
Agree, we need people like Trump, who puts America first
Looking at this from a Muslim perspective is confusing and just heartbreaking. Soo many nations destroyed and the Americans want to be the victims. I feel pity for them but that doesn’t absolve them of anything and there are always consequences.
Agreed
@@TheGhostOfMichaelJackson lol
@@brumball2503 study world history, history of Iraq and that region, study All the reasons why the US finally finished GW1
@@jaybelle1909 LOL
I was stationed in Afghanistan for some time in the province of Ghazni part of Task Force „Biały Orzeł”. Met a lot of amazing Afghan people were kind it's one of the reasons why my faith in Allah became more powerful Alhamdulillah ❤️
Allahu Akbar
The leaders of Islam is Iran attempting hostile takeover of foreign governments. They make you think martyrdom makes you more spiritual so they can manipulate you.
Americans get up everyday to go to work creating honest jobs and fighting corruption so our children will get out of sin. We learn tangible skills in fashion, manufacturing, Healthcare, agriculture because we are focused on the future.
You see death and destruction and you aren't afraid because you have no reason to live. Iran has no plans to do anything with the land and people they already have.
Violent occult regimes use multiple strategies including forced malnutrition, honor beatings, female circumcision, child abuse, bribery, extortion, racketeering to make people docile followers.
When you have a whole nation that does not know that heat from jet fuel cannot melt steel and cause concrete to crumble in 2 hours then you have a problem that cannot be fixed.
So are u NATO soldier?
I wonder: if America stops being seeing itself as the world police and thus stop interfering in other countries, it would not have created so many enemies for itself. It is better to clean up your own backyard than being busy body. Fortunately, it is not my country.
We can't win either way. If we get involved we are bullying and interfering. If we don't do anything then we are guilty of standing by while crimes are committed - which is like condoning or even facilitating those crimes. Whatever we do we will create enemies and allies for the same action or inaction. Fortunately, it's not your country but we do appreciate your constructive criticism.
someone else will take america place lets be honest every superpower will do it
U should experiance american culture , for as long as biden is President u can enter
@@nealteitelbaum8660 and now chinas the biggest bully
@@enriquegonzalez145 Yes sir. I agree.
This is why i always have support the veterans and the military,even though i don't understand politics because I am a autistic savant disabled woman.
This is how it is. The rich and powerful live a completely different life than the average person. They are clueless!
@Dingo Rivera Biden doesn’t even know where he is.. or what day it is 🥴
Bush should be behind bars.
Lol. No politicians ever be incarcerated for their indirect war crimes . Bush lives safe and sound in his ranch
I'm sure Trump will be first!
LOL!!! His great grand father made fortune by selling thousands of tons of opium to China in late Qing Dynasty period (alongside with Queen Victoria's British Empire). And his grand father collaborated with N A Z I Germany regime throughout the entire WWII. They both lived long and died rich and glorious. Nothing would happen to him.
@Dingo Rivera you’re a joke
no no. the gallows! like they did to saddam
I am a British veteran of Afghanistan. I was there 2009 to 2010. I took part in operation Moshtarak. I knew then it would fail. I knew the Afghan government would fail. I thought they would last a few years. The government was corrupt and rotten. They were not worth fighting and dying for. So I don't blame the Afghan army for surrendering. You Americans allowed them to be dirty and you threw money at them. You screwed this up. This is your Suez crisis. Afghanistan is known as the graveyard of empires. Your tombstone with USA 1776 to 2020.
Yep. Funny though how this is your FOURTH loss in the region as the same time....
AW, all war objectives were achieved early on.. the goal was never to destroy all terrorist in the region but rather to suppress them from using the nation as a base to attack foreign nation... had the mil objective Bern to win by defeating the talibsn and other terror groups it would involve invading Pakistan and using unfiltered warfare thus basically leveling the mountain and everyone in them, taking out ever taliban support and person cooperating with them... obviously western nations don't use this kind of excessive force but to deal with the Afghan situation that is what's needed... Afghan ppl are the reason for its downfall not the west but the ppl chose infighting and division over unity... to establish unity in Afghanistan would require everything Sadam did as US acting like babysitters to ignorant ppl is not the way
@@jaybelle1909 Thanks for responding I think I was having an anger fit and I was venting. Its easy to be angry at our political situation at the minute. It doesn't matter what country you live in we are all suffering. I don't get a vote in the US elections but Joe Biden is really hurting us and Boris Johnson allows it.
The interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan was at a huge cost and we have squandered so much out there. The same people have provoked a war with Russia and are going to lose it
@@jaybelle1909 ignorant people🤣...remember the US running away in August 2021?!
@@jaybelle1909 majority of Afghans are happy that Taliban regained power.
China should never allow these foreigners to profit. Be proud of your Mandarin. You don't need English to be successful. From England.
I'm proud in both hahaha, both are useful for business
I would agree if you said knowing both would be good
@A Leopardess Mee hahahaa
@@aerojetrocketdyners-2538 Yeah, both are my source of income
England should start deporting foreigners whom commit treason like this H C fella - National security threat I'd say.
I'm still asking the same question the Marine asked "why were we in Afghanistan" and no one can give me an honest, definte, genuine or logical answer.
You’ll never get one
Well like most US wars - there isn't a logical answer but if you really don't know why Afghanistan was invaded than you missed the major irony of this documentary - particularly in the 'domestic terrorism' portion. The US invaded Afghanistan for their supposed 'war on terror' following the 9/11 attack on the twin towers and the pentagon. Bush was alleging the former government (the Taliban) was allowing the country to become a breeding ground for terrorism, which is how Osama Bin Laden was able to carry out his attacks. Which is ironic in itself for various reasons. Fast forward 20+ years the Taliban is back in power and the US has had a major rise in domestic terrorism related to white supremacy ideology rather than extremist jihadists. In one way you could count the war as a major success (a joke).. It's also had huge spikes in mass shootings (which could be seen as terrorism incidents) and that's caused by an entirely different issue, domestic politics.
Those poor civillians in Afghanistan & Iraq were asking the same question. What did they do to deserve so many deaths, home and countries destroyed,? But at least they died fighting for their homeland.
@@bpastorbIf there was any country for the US to invade, it should’ve been Saudi - seeing as most of the attackers where from there. Of course, we know why they didn’t attack them.
Reading the title I suddenly remember one part of Vice's "This is what Winning Looks Like" documentary. At 50:15 an afghan elder said "we will survive, but the American will take the war back to their home."
Good Call. That was a great doc too
General Wesley Clark: The US will attack 7 countries in 5 years
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I hope the pedo cops got it first when the taliban took over.
I saw that doc as well. Very true words.
Ben Anderson is a wonderful and sincere journalist. That documentary has aged like fine wine.
Nah...it's not War On Terror but it's War For Oil
not for oil.
but for weed ~
So true. Since the days America produced oil domestically (fracking), they didn't need Middle East...
@@oceanwave4502 so why tdid a crises occur when Saudi stop the oil.
@@penonton4260 The entire thing, from 9/11 forward was planned carefully for maximum profit. Rockefellers want the oil in Iraq, the vast oil reserves in Afghan, AND they want the oil in Iran. They used nuclear weapons all over Iraq, Afghan, as well as Syria; and sold them to Israel and UK too. The populations of those countries will die over the next two decades from birth defects, cancers and diseases related to enriched uranium and depleted uranium, just as the troops exposed. And, you are close, Afghan gave an agency complete control of the opium trade which is trafficked by contractors to Mexico, laced with fentanyl and trafficked to the US to demoralize/kill citizens. It is deliberate; it has been this way since Vietnam; they wanted control of the opium nearby.
The only "terror" came from our own government.
War on TERROR...... who's the real TERROR?
🤔
terroris is who invanded other country.... what they give they get back
Errr...putin?
Terror is democrat biden's party. They are suck and racism make up
Violent occult regimes use multiple strategies to make people docile followers including forced incest, forced malnutrition, honor beatings, female circumcision, child abuse, bribery, coercion, extortion, oppressed clothing, low wages.
Your U.S. tax dollars at work. The money could have been given back to taxpayers and used for domestic programs for education and health. The human suffering on all sides is astronomical. Those burn pits hurt the native populations also !
So sad to see these young lives serving the interests of private companies while thinking they are serving a cause!
"Raise crows and they will take out your eyes" is the moral of this history.
It's very similar to what they did training the talibans including Osama Bin Laden at the time of the soviet invasion.
At the end they hunted him like a rat
these men of the U S. military deserve the best treatment out there.
The US have failed in Afghanistan
Thanks to Obama and fools like him-!
The US and my Country, Great Britain, don't look after their service personnel very well..... it's absolutely atrocious in my opinion. The only people who do care or understand are people who have served themselves, you have the VA, we have the Royal British Legion, SSAFA, Help for Heroes, Combat Stress, Forgotten Heroes but these ones in my Country are all funded by donations.... the British Government does not do nearly enough.
P.S Did you know that in Britain, people donate more money to bloody animal charities than any other ones, including the above mentioned, which sickens me.
Gooner 72 blind obedience is the darkness of you and it show dark side of your heart is. For your humanity to shine MUST HAVE THE BRAVERY & COURAGES TO WHAT ARE GOOD FOR HUMANITY IN THE DESPERATE TIME OF NEED. The time of need define a person. Blind obedience does NOT MAKE YOU A GOOD PERSON!
Hanuman Battambang born 1969 in the Vietnam War, Serviced in US Navy Desert Sand and Desert Storm.
This vid is sheer propaganda at every single turn, the Only truthful part in it is the fact vets are mistreated as seen in a bad light... though this video shows struggling vets it bashes vets at every turn falsely laying them as broken, hateful, violent, criminals who hate foreigners, muslims, democracy, law and order... it paints wars in iraq and Afghanistan as unjust pointless wars... this video it absolutely sickening
Lol. That’s the point of charity. You give your money to causes that are important to you.
@Hanuman Battambang I too chose to sign on the dotted line and serve my Country.... I wouldn't change a thing.
Soldiers are mere fodder
Sad
Yes there are so many victims of war and its the innocent civilians that usually die and suffer in greater proportion to the military.
The sense of guilt and regrets that kills inside..
30,000 Veterans suicide is bad yes but what about a million Iraqis?
@@wineverything7529 any human life is precious no doubt, but what can the world do. We all knew what or who did it, and there's no action taken. Only ordinary people talks about it and those who can make a difference is silent
@@ijuzliketocommenttoo6331 the amount that americans killed, unforgettable, yet you guys are always the victim
This video is sheer propaganda at every single turn; vets aren't offing themselves over regrets aa that is only a tiny tiny minority
@@wineverything7529this has nothing to do with Iraq. This is about Afghanistan. It literally says it in the title.
The military industrial complex by General Smedley Butler. This book or on youtube tells the story of waste of lives, and American taxes throughout modern history. A must watch
He would've been pro fascist during the second world War
2 thoughts come to mind:
1. Looks like 'Rambo, First Blood' as veterans faced all sorts of PTSD and injustice at home
2. Recall my daughter who had served in Afghanistan and Iraq describing the place as a gigantic open air toilet. With the burn pit coverage, now I understand.
Ask your daughter why they couldn't bury the trash? Ground to hard? No equipment?
All outstanding student loans equals 1.58 trillions, war on terror…8 trillions. Puzzling!
Where's common-sense?
@BitBlueBalls Dude stated a statistical fact. He didn't say he had a loan. You infer he has. Think and reason like a lawyer.
@BitBlueBalls lol I don’t have student loans! Wow. Low selfish esteem. So quick to attack others. I was simply making analysis. 1.5 trillions created many doctors and engineers, and how much of 8 trillions created anything?
@@LivingWithGout Or you meant @bitblueballs? He's the one who attacked you not me.
@@afrofeast oops my bad bud
I have been crying for these Veterans and those in combat for years. I saw Vietnam all over again. So many young lives have been sacrificed for our fellow man. I felt that if we stayed over there, a whole generation of people will be wiped out. We need our youth home. We need to heal, become healthy and whole again. The government needs to spend that money now on their Vets and give back what was taken from them. I pray that we will regain our strength again and live in peace.
Why aren't you crying for the people you have killed
You cry for the american soldiers who died but completely disregard the millions of innocents that have been killed and displaced by the wars based on lies and imperialistic concerns of the U.S. Myopic people like you, simply put, have no idea whats going on!
@@tonybarrios5045 No. I was merely addressing the plight of our soldiers. I think all wars are horrible and my heart goes out to all those who suffer because of it. We may one day experience that suffering.
@@omennemo8844 then to be fair you should include the lives of the farmers in Afghanistan, the families in Iraq(civilians) were killed by the hundreds of thousands and the women and children in villages in Vietnam who were bombed with napalm and thrown out of their villages, the people in Syria who suffer so much death and devastation as well. Your boys can go and do go home. They cant. They live there and have suffered more than the soldiers you cry over. These innocents deserve your tears more than the soldiers who were trained to kill and sent there. Tell me, have the Afghans invaded the beaches of Calufornia? Did the Vietnamese parachute into Oregon and start shooting people? Did the Iraqis bomb NY city. Ridiculous right! Well, that is exactly what your soldiers have done in those countries and all under false pretenses. I wish you could see it from their perspective so you will know who really suffered in the wars perpetuated by America! And mind you these were done under false pretenses!
@@tonybarrios5045 I did my share of protesting during the Vietnam War. All I can do now is pass the word. It's up to the young folks all around the world now. I feel that no matter what we say, the governments (not only in America) will do what they want.
17 GI killed themself every day, 30,000 GI killed themself, 200,000 injured themself..... WHY?
They kill themselves where? In Afghanistan?
@@wumao6797 PTSD
From the guilt they had for committing monstrous war crimes in the not just Afghanistan, but also Iraq, Libya, Syria, Mali and Yemen.
It is the Guilt bro.. Nightmares from the people u kill
God's justice
@@wineverything7529 you are right bro
Served with the Marines in Hawaii. Surfs up dude! What a Hero!! Thanks for your service 😂
It's crazy how suicide numbers are way higher than actual war deaths so sad ! We have to help our vets !
These people speak about immigrants, but who are the immigrants and who America belongs too? Base on authentic history it belongs to the native Indian people and also the blacks because they were brought as slave and has been slaved for over 300 years by the very same people who claiming the land which are European who brought the slaves and kill the native people. That's the reason America is so divided and so many blood shared because they build the nation and wright their constitution on the behalf of slavery and genocide of the native people.
Everything comes with a price, the important question is has the US learned anything from its wars and proxy wars around the world? Has the common US citizens understood and realize that they are the ones paying the price? From what we see, I highly doubt this and its the US people that are the ones paying the price for electing their leaders that start these wars and unfortunately this vicious cycles continues again after sufficient time for them to forget and we saw that from the Vietnam war and more than half a decade later the Afghan war.
Actually there are those of us(US citizens) that very much disagree with the choices our government makes regarding getting involved in other country"s business. As far as presidential elections, our votes don't matter! The electoral college ultimately decides who is President of the US(Bush & Trump are evidence of that). Trump was very strategic when he made the deal with the Taliban. I'm sure he knew the ramifications and did that to help him with another run for President in 2024. He is a disgrace to the US. Too bad he can't be banished from the US.😁. It is shameful what our government ordered our military to do during WW2(Hiroshima & Nagasaki), the Vietnam conflict and Afghanistan. Innocent lives lost is NEVER acceptable IMO.
@@talesfromtheleashexpatdogl1426 - I really sympathize with the lack of options and choice. But lets face it US spend US$6.2T on wars after 9/11 and u know what US6.2T can do? It can have modern infrastructure, subsidize healthcare/education etc... yet US keep electing leaders from Democrats to Republicans to continue the war all over the world for more than 2 decades and that isnt taking into account the other smaller wars in Somalia, Hondurus, Panama, Nicaragua, etc... that was started after WW2. The funny part is that all this money pouring into wars are your tax payer money and your system of government is suppose to be the true form of democracy elected by the people to work for the people... isnt this a paradox?
@@albertwong1919 it's a shitshow I agree but you can't blame the citizens for the role of the government. Are Cuban's at fault for their government? Are Afghanis to be blamed for their politics? Ethiopians? Yemeni? No, none of these people are at fault. We don't choose where we are born!!? And again, OUR VOTES DON'T MATTER. If you were born and raised in the US, then you'd know that. FYI, I left the US and moved abroad just to escape the BS.
@@albertwong1919 I don't know who thinks the US is the epicenter of democracy. Obviously, most US citizens will object to that. It's more like a police state!!!
I quote" It's a sham of a democracy and two-party dictatorship " Pat Buchanan. The average American really doesn't have a voice.
Before, the insurgents were usually equipped with AK47s, PKMs, and RPGs. Now, they are armed with US weaponry and some vehicle and aircraft assets.
God bless our warfighters and America 🇺🇸
Nahh, those f***ers will probably be rotting in hell for carrying out a genocide of Iraqis, Afghanis and Syrians.
And, God did not bless Nazi Germany. Neither he will bless America since, America is the new Nazi Germany.
All good. In a few more years, we will go back to this somewhere on the world.
And I will be included in it.
Why can't all "WAR" just "STOP"?????
I have so very much respect and admiration for our American military people and veterans of past wars, including the families who have lost loved ones. May God always bless them all and the ones who are no longer with us. 🥰
“War” has been around since recorded times. Man will never change.. there will always be a war.. and there will always be suffering. This is the way of this world.
Because murderers and freaking armys of terrorist aren’t going to stop their murder Because you want to jerk off and smell flowers!
Seems like the majority of locals knew Americans would eventually walk away and leave them to the Taliban. The locals that worked with us thought they'd be evacuated to America. What an absolute disgusting waist of resources and American/Afghanistan lives.
wow can't believe cna featured a documentary on ayahuasca
SHAME on them IIRC But from what I recall the whole piece aired without ever once mentioning it's medicines name or even regarding original shamanistic ritual let alone the active ingredient DMT. they called it Plant-Based Therapy, but it requires a guide and so much more then just a plant for MOST/MANY people to achieve the hyper-healing self realization/actualization life-altering Shame on them the kind of experience he had. Or did he use "IB_____E...
@@jsuisheureux1425 natures greatest recover aid
This war has but America in debt more, than any other war.
I was shocked to hear the thoughts of "Muslims", and then I saw the banner "Ahmadiya Muslims" and then that made sense!
Ahmadiya aren’t Muslims Period. They don’t believe in the tenets of Islam.
@@bannedone3ice138 and what's the tenents of Al Islam?
So which version of Islam solve Covid19? Or was it other religions? It's sad to see people still high on this opium of the masses.
Stop fighting with one another over religion, race, or something else because you want to feel superior to others.
@@randomlifts founder of mRNA covid 19 vaccine are Muslim couples by the way. Father of modern medicine is bin sina (avicenna) algebra (al-jabr) algoritma from Mr Al-Khawarizmi that enables complex mathematical calculations today. So what is your point.
@@randomlifts islam is a way of life, not a specialized subject of study. So the argument of COVID solver doesn't apply. Whoever thrives in the relevant field of study would succed in finding a cure - irrespective of his/her belief. Islam teaches humility and equality as a human, so the argument of feeling superior is invalid as well. The ways of Muslims may not be reflection of the true teachings of Islam, and this applies to even other religions out there. Though shrinking Islam to a religion is not fair - but that's another story.
As far as versions are concerned, yes the implicational and political differences have caused variance, even differences, even conflicts within muslims but that was Muslims' actions rather than Islamic actions. But note that all the versions are united on one thing, there is no prophet after Muhammad (PBUH) the very belief the subject group is seen to be out of the bounds. Simple.
PBS has, on Aug 20, 2021, just re-premiered its 2003 documentary -- "Truth, War and Consequences (full documentary) | FRONTLINE" on RUclips. It would be interesting to see how the whole thing was viewed back then.
This vid is sheer propaganda at every single turn I seriously hope you're not suggest any crap agenda mentioned in it is true?
@@jaybelle1909 , I surely find this video and the contents thereof rather dubious. Also find it dubious why it was re-aired in August of 2021 (as opposed to why not Jan 2021, or 2022, or 2018, etc.), when it was first aired in 2003.
I merely managed to put it more courteously.
Well, I think the American are the richest in the world. Most of the money your governments spend on international policing rather than on their own citizens . Yet still look at celebrities, cosmetic doctors and so on ………
They are the world police, American is on the path downhill, a lot of debts, keep printing money to keep their economic going, some days is going out of gas and their economic eventually collapse.
Why would anyone follow American standards? Americans are the only people on earth that plays FOOTball using their hands🤣🤣
Rich what rich... dollar doesn't backed by gold anymore ...😆
I'm a psychotherapist and see a lot of ex military people walk in my door. Humans are not made to kill humans, with the exception of the psychopathic personality. You might dehumanise as you have been taught, but sooner or later something (and it can be seemingly unrelated), will cause you to struggle and/or snap. It's essentially "shell shock"
We need our soilders home to protect America from within against themselves .
swift evacuation from Afghanistan? That was chaotic and disastrous, nothing swift about it
When you fight against anyone fight for
kind and reason war needs to take seriously considering
We're out of Afghanistan. We left in a despicable manner. It is done. Now, how about providing a higher income, better services & more benefits to our vets & active service members....instead of CUTTING THEM? The US government needs to get its priorities straight.
You wanna know why/ (how even after all that US military training ) they gave up without a fight when the taliban swept in???
Its because they don’t know what they’re fighting for !!!
Ps.
30000
US veteran suicides... that’s insane! what did they do? What did they see over there?
Antidepression meds man. Those meds have side effect of suicide. My brother was on it and it was horrible. Big pharma
You're kinda assuming vets mostly kill themselves over regret when that is a tiny tiny fraction of vets offing themselves... it's everything beyond just warfare such as things like witnessing how ppl in other nations wrongly treat each other... mostly witnessing death of all ppl even your enemies, seeing your friends die, seeing civilians die, seeing taliban strap children with bo mb vest and told to walk over to US forces; it's regret from shooting kids who were forced to shoot at US forces or being paid $5 to throw grenades at US forces; it's witnessing civilian lives lost do to taliban using them as shields or agfani informants giving wrong reports, or taliban spys pretending to be informants to cause US to hit civilian targets; it's the trauma from constant gun and bomb attacks, constant treat that at and second of any day you, your brother, or civilians could be killed; it's the stress of taliban forces blowing up a massive crowd of pp then blame the US and for ignorant ppl in the rest of the world just assuming these false claims are true even in the US ppl wrongly criticizing vets of murdering civilians because they heard or saw some fake report or ignorant ppl thinking just because US was there and ppl die means all deaths are US vets fault even when it's Afghanis and Iraqis killing each other... again only a tiny tiny fraction of soldiers go "rouge" due to all the stresses mentioned and as such go on unjust rampages then later have regrets... Even pre war soldiers and soon to become solder had some level of trauma do to witnessing all the atrocities occurring and had occurred in those nation thus why we went in
@@jaybelle1909 who told u these things??
no military personnel on the planet comes home from war and blows thier own head off out of regret for witnessing how other nations wrongly treat each other for goodness sake!
read ur post back to urself......most of what ur saying while unintentional makes a complete mockery of the US military and how they operate.
soldiers would not just watch while a child get bombs strapped to it and sent on its merry way, they'd haven taken out the taliban soldier b4 the bomb got anywhere near the child.
its the stress of informants giving wrong reports, or taliban spys pretending to be informants to cause US to hit civilian targets.....they are NEVER going 2 hit ANY target based solely on the word of informants/spys.
it's the stress of taliban forces blowing up a massive crowd of pp then blame the US and for ignorant ppl in the rest of the world just assuming these false claims are true.... well i have personally seen video footage in leaked files published by wikileaks of 2 separate incidents when multiple civilians were purposely shot from helicopters.
iv also seen an interview of the father of marine that had served 2 tours in iraq and commited suicide bk home...he'd told his dad some of the things they were ordered to do out there. for example...soldiers on patrol come across 2 small, terrified and obviously starving children, alone. picking tadpoles from a dirty puddle to eat. they reported to superior and awaited instruction.....order came back to shoot them.
nearly100 years fighting endless wars for these souless blood thirsty warmongering profiteers ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
32:22 the video got the date wrong for January 2021, it put "June" for some reason?
This is called: The Curse Of Afghanistan!
If they bring the war home, where are they going to live when the home is destroyed?
Perhaps that explain the 100s of 1000s of homeless in Murica.
A good soldier Suffers the consequences of a country’s bad policy
And you still watch these programmes
??
It’s doesn’t what kind of medical issues these veterans has. They should be aproved and taken off for the rest of their life. For god sakes. They did enough for giving their life for us. It’s not just physically but mentally these men and women veterans are suffering and the government can’t just ignored that.
Thank you CNA for this documentary. I hope one featuring the voices of Afghanis will also be made as well. I understand that this is about the voices of ex-US soldiers who fought in the middle east and their voices are important (even those gun toting, "muh rights" middle aged militia uncles who seem to be cosplaying). I also think about the Afghans and Iraqis caught in a war that was built on lies, that destroyed their homes and killed their families. For those people, they have no homes to go back to and sometimes no family. Perhaps the next time US tries to convince the world of a new enemy, we would be just a bit more skeptical about them manufacturing consent for yet another war and conflict.
The problem with the US convincing the world of another enemy?
Well contrary to popular believe, rulers of democratic nations no longer need majority support to do anything.
They just need to convince 10 to 20% of the population to support whatever idiocy they planning on.
The remaining 40% is already banked in thanks to partisan politics. Imagine being registered card carrying members of a political party, often a tradition over multiple generations in a family.
And do not forget the atrocities and murders committed by some Australian Special Forces soldiers who were feted as heroes back in Australia.
30,000 Veterans suicide is bad yes but what about a million Iraqis?
@@wineverything7529 exactly...always one sided reporting...welcome to the media...
Do you not remember 9/11 or you were not born.
“We made a mistake” that is the truth the politics know it but refuse to take it in action good for people not only USA but Iraq and Afghanistan. They choose good for themselves as fame and power
THE COST OF AMERICAN TERROR IN AFGANISTANT
Another point of view Well ✔ 👍
There's never an easy time to leave a war it has taken guts to move America out
It would have taken "guts" to stand up to the military industrial complex in the beginning
30k vets took own life that number is massive, there done the hard part now they need people to listen RIP FALLING U.S AND MY OWN BRITISH SOLDIERS
I hope the VA will do what is right and just by all Veterans who are suffering from visible and invisible war scars.
There was no such thing as the war on terror, the Americans engaged in a war of terrorizing the region for their selfish interests
Why TF are we worried bout other foreign people when we have our VETERANS to worry but, we need to attend to our veterans first cuz they just got bak from a 20 year war.
Our forces WON BUT POLITICIANS LOST
Not really if 30k veterans suicided
Nice documentary, very interesting throughout
It is rife with propaganda start to finish; it is utter disturbing and an insult to intelligence
Napoleon:. "In warfare, the moral is as to the material as three to one"...
Nothing angers me more then the fact that we just gave that country back to the terrorists all the guy’s we lost over there died for nothing once we pulled out Rest In Peace
This is the case that we were the terrorist and Iraqis the victim.
Given that the taliban was the government in power when the US went in, perhaps that is the government of the people, although it’s the government the US wanted
Love THAT SONG MR.LEROY. AND LOVE YOU TO SIR...
GOD BLESS ALL OUT MILITARY MAN AND WOMEN
This was very informative, thanks for sharing this information.
Here's some perspective for everyone concerning the War in Afghanistan. It cost the United States $2.313 trillion dollars to fight the war. The total number of enemy combatants both Taliban and Al-Qaeda killed was 85,791 It cost the United States taxpayer $27 million dollars to kill each of those combatants. And in the end, President Joe Biden handed everything back to the Taliban including $85 billion dollars worth of US military equipment and weapons. I wonder if it was worth it? I did not include the cost of American and our allies' lives because in my opinion even losing one of our own soldiers was not worth the cost.
"Soldiers are sad and short stories "
USA and NATO allies are guilty of war crimes against humanity when they waged war on innocent Afghan people in 1970s overthrowing young revolutionary government .
Forcing Soviet union to get involved , thousands of Soviet citizens lost their lives fighting this NATO imposed war.
Hundreds of thousands of Afghanis have unnecessarily lost their lives.
Tens of thousands of NATO troops have suffered .....
Let's pray for peace and common sense friendship amongst nations on this golden planet earth
But the genes of peace do not exist in the USA and Nato. The USA was not born of peace but of violence, massacres, lies and theft of the natives' land and natural resources. Nato was formed for war.
I see Russian Propaganda about USA really worked on you
Though the war on Terror was supposed to get the bad guys and then nation build Iraq and Afghanistan as typical western server states opposed to ' terror's. But these efforts were so awful, in the end, it seems the whole point really was to sow chaos, discord, and trauma throughout the middle east. By traumatizing the middle east, it makes the cost of attacks on the US so high that it's less likely to happen again. So even if all the nation building failed, the chaos and trauma would at least deter future attacks since so many suffered.
I watched Vietnam kill my uncle 40 years after he left the war. He suffered poisoning from agent orange, like many others do. It only took 6 months from diagnosis for him to loose 100 pounds from all the cancers. He only did what was expected of him. My heart goes out to every single man and woman who thought they were doing the right thing for their country.
It is so unfortunate that all this hate has been created or brought to the surface. I believe we need our militias to keep our government in check, but not to spread hate on other nationalities.
Go search with this string --> Agent Orange + birth defect + Vietnam. Just the thumbnails alone will make anyone throw up.
Your uncle was a rather unfortunate collateral.
You stated, " I believe we need our militias to keep our government in check, but not to spread hate on other nationalities." But do you know that marc rubio was ranting to impeach/court martial General Milley for having stopped two imminent wars and save the US from Donald, the Groper?
This video is sheer propaganda at every single turn; this should be obvious to any sane person but if your just ignorant I highly recommend actually studying all matters fully and in proper context as this video it utterly sickening and is wrongly and falsely bashing vets at every turn
I believe it’s time for the US military to turn on its own government, they are out of control and the biggest single threat to global peace today.
you wrote "My heart goes out to every single man and woman who thought they were doing the right thing for their country."
my question to you is, was the US under attack?
@@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 to my understanding we have only ever been attacked on 9/11 and at pearl harbor so my answer is no. I'd like to think we kind of "police the world" and help those that really need it. But I would be a fool to believe that. War exist for control and power and to make the rich richer. The men and women who serve in the US military, I believe do it for all the right reasons. Unfortunately they are used, like the Russians military to protect the interest of those in charge meaning they die in vain.
40:28 this dude just admitted to at least one war crime followed by a felony.. His cute little hate filled speech defines genocide, and i'm pretty sure planning a terrorist attack is a felony just as much as carrying it out is..
kind of crazy how people actually made it inside the capital. shows a lot!
They were let in by capital police
@@biggtv8584 yeah. That's why they haven't released all that footage. It will show these ppl were let in. As if it were okay. Not everyone who was there was there with bad intentions. There were morons. No doubt but it wasn't an "insurrection" that's laughable
Kind of crazy how people actually destroy thousands of business, properties and lives in the name of equality. sHoWs a LoT!
What you thought glorified security guards were gonna stop a mob?
@@TheGhostOfMichaelJackson notice how they claim 10% of violent offender ls were vets when out of hundreds of ppl who went in capital only about a dozen acted violently thus means only a couple ppl who commit a crime were vets; so 2 to 3 ppl out of over a hundred thousand ppl attending committed a crime yet vets are to blame... this entire video is propaganda at every single turn the Only truthful thing they mention is that vets are very often mistreated and neglected; even with that throughout thus entire video it is Solely wrongly and falsely blaming vets... not one single person in a capital committed a serious crime save for the guard who murdered an unarmed woman who wasn't posing a threat
These ignorant and irresponsible people should be stopped from having children.
Amazing documentary! Well done Shehzad!
This is extreme propaganda at every turn. The Only honest thing they mention was vet very often get neglected or mistreated but even yet throughout yhe entire video they falsely bash vets and push blatantly false accusations against them and patriots... this is not journalism and its absolutely sickening to watch... any intelligent person can see through all the things pushed in this propaganda vid; but if you're just ignorant that's fine but I recommend educating you're on all subjects mentioned
After so much money lost in the war in the middle east, now its Ukraine's time , Americans don't learn...
The US military industrial complex-political partnership know very well the damages their endless war brings internally and externally but they'd rather sweep it under the rug because their profits outweigh anything and everything else.
The Military-Industrial complex always wins. It is very sick.
America 🇺🇸 don’t belong in war
With Middle East .
America leaders must have a good relationship & peace .
Protect our borders
Stop war & honest help for humanity.
Prayers for all loss of life.
🙏🙏🙏🇺🇸🦅☮️🙏🙏🙏
Surely, its very costly finanially and emotionally, especially that both wars end up in a disaster, benefitting America's enemies, Iran and China. Some may call it peotic justice.
Afghans spoke to the media demanding USA leave so we did. Not one Afghan official asked USA to stay or expressed their appreciation when we left in April 2021.
I'm so mad that all those soldiers might have died for nothing 😒
Might have??!! Is that still a Question?!
I found this as comment on another video: "I would like to congratulate "terror" for wining the war on terror".
Just like drugs have won the war on druggs congrats indeed
What are you talking about ?? Calling Taliban terrorist? They just defending their country, their ppl. America is biggest terrorist country in the world.
@@jimmyk1998How blindfolded you are? Kill political opponents, teachers, women fighting for their right, Hazara, give terrorists a safe haven, use suicide bombers to kill civilians to create an atmosphere of terror. And say they do it for their version of a "peaceful religion". This list can be expanded. Many Muslim around the world call this terrorism too, embarrassing for the great Islam.
And even if the US have a terror politics too; that can´t whitewash groups like the Taliban from terrorism.
@@michaelmarchanda name me one country where the USA went to make it better and when they left ppl lived better???? Just one
@@jimmyk1998 Germany, Japan. The US brought democracy, wealth and peace to these violent and suicidal warmongering countries.
People shouldn't talk about money when they talk about the cost of war.
That said, saying 10% of people involved in Capitol violence isn't saying very much? That's not too much off from the general population statistic, and indeed might even be lower than in the general populace.
That would be like 2-3ppl out of over 100k in attendance
This ended the exact same way as Vietnam...exactly...anybody have any more pointless wars to get involved in?
Expect that this time it will have more impact than Vietnam War
The American "militia" boys look like the Taliban boys minus the turban LOL
So what does the BLM militia look like to you then, with their little stovepiped .22's saying they will defeat all who cross their paths lmao
What freedoms did we fight those people for???
In my opinion,Iraq war was unnecessary, but Afghan war was necessary, at least until Osama bin Laden was killed. What other option US had post 9/11 when Taliban refused to handover Osama bin Laden ? I would go further and say that instead of Iraq war, US should have tried surgical missions within Pakistan based on intelligence information, like they did when they killed Osama bin Laden.
Wars are not pretty. But sometimes, they are necessary for national security. Other times, they are Warlords' business...
The Taliban didn't refuse to hand over UBL. The USA has repeatedly and conveniently set aside its reputation as a country of laws in its efforts to steal resources it has been unable or unwilling to obtain through normal trade.
Afghanistan sits atop vast arrays of mineral and energy resources and more than a few countries have been festering to extract them on the cheap since long before WWII.
I feel some compassion for folks who believe wholeheartedly that the US is what it claims it is, an exemplary state to be emulated. It isn't. It is ruled in the same manner all countries and large populations have been for the last ten millennia, wherein a small group of thieving psychopaths manage to gin up some plausible fairy tales to convince the majority of their subjects to look the other way while they(the so-called elites)pick everyone's pockets through elaborate schemes like scapegoating other countries for domestic troubles to justify resource theft that largely benefits those elites.
Don't take my word for this.
Read all you can, not just what you're told to.
amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/14/afghanistan.terrorism5?amp_js_v=a6&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQIUAKwASCAAgM%3D#aoh=17015522596943&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fworld%2F2001%2Foct%2F14%2Fafghanistan.terrorism5
OMG,please help these veterans,stop wars.
30,000 is high but what about 1 million Iraqis where is our moral obligation?
I was in 1 tour in Afghanistan back in 2008. We trained their police and army. And we talked back then that they were to soft as people and soldiers. They only smoke hashish and drank tea from opium pops. And if,God forbid,times go when we need to go out and leave Afghanistan for good-Taliban will took it with no fight! And that was wwway back in 2008. 13 yeats later-that same thing happend!
How does an average ANA soldier compare to a taliban cadre? Motivation and training wise?
Long story short this is the reality of service in wartime. Marine Corps uses you for everything you have, you silently deal with the aftermath of dead friends and suicidal friends, snd you become a functioning alcoholic using drugs as soon as he got out so that I could feel something.
Good times!
85,000 veterans may have lung diseases because of the burned pits in Iraq.
So I caught covid for the first time right before we pulled out and for 2 weeks I fought tooth and nail to understand what was happening and mourning our KIA from my last tour 09-10 and remember the rage and anger I felt. I've held a 9mm to my head once and thank God I didn't pull the trigger and this is not some pity story but those of us who lost brothers and sisters during the 20 year war it feels guilty in a sense to have made it back home.