This HAS to be the most sensible piece I've read about the Long War we're in. Published today in the Washington Post, it's an editorial by Pete Hegseth of Vets for Freedom (who's been on our show a couple of times) and Maj. Gen. John Batiste, up til now a vocal anti-war critic. Batiste has now come over to the other side. Welcome General Batiste!
Here's an excerpt --- read the entire piece at the Washington Post.
Yes, the best piece I've read in a while. DEFINITELY worth your time...Congress has been entangled in a war-funding debate that pits war "supporters" against antiwar "defeatists." With all sides seemingly entrenched, a stalemate looms. The Pentagon, meanwhile, will soon begin stripping money from its training budget to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Our military men and women deserve better than partisan politics; they deserve honest assessments of our nation's performance in fighting the Long War.
We are veterans of the Iraq war with vastly different experiences. Both of us commanded troops in Iraq. We, too, held seemingly entrenched, and incompatible, views upon our return. One of us spoke out against mismanagement of the war -- failed leadership, lack of strategy and misdirection. The other championed the cause of successfully completing our mission.
Our perspectives were different, yet not as stark as the "outspoken general" and "stay-the-course supporter" labels we received. Such labels are oversimplified and inaccurate, and we are united behind a greater purpose.
It's time to discuss the way forward rather than prosecute the past. Congress must do the same, for our nation and the troops.
(h/t ACE of Spades)
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