How Incompetent and Over-Funded is the U.S. Military?
Op-ed by
TheWiseOldFart
Under orders
from their Fuhrer-in-Chief, the United States military has been sinking
Venezuelan boats and killing civilians. Trump claims that they are drug
smugglers, while the government of Venezuela says they were pleasure craft. Members
of the National Guard are invadeing blue states as Trump attempts to enact martial
law to prevent protests against his fascist policies.
Maybe Trump
wants to give the Pentagon a much-needed victory They couldn’t defeat the North
Koreans, were forced to retreat from Vietnam permanently, and lost to the Taliban
and Iraq’s army before the conflicts began. Our military is not trained to
fight in those types of wars. Hell, they couldn’t stop Trump’s Nazi army from
invading the Capitol Building on January 6.
Martha
Gellhorn, a famous war correspondent, once wrote: "Governments are all bad
everywhere, only differently bad. I've known that for a long time". This
quote reflects her long and varied experience covering conflicts and atrocities
around the world, particularly her firsthand observations of Nazi concentration
camps.
Nothing
could have proven her allegation more than America’s government in 2025. The
men and women on the right side of the aisle are the most corrupt and incompetent
in our nation’s 249-year history.
Throughout
America’s history, our military leaders and the men and women who were on the
ground, fighting those wars, have been praised. Most of this is admirable and
well deserved. However, the men and women who sit in offices in the Pentagon in
the 21st century have become political, and continue to fail.
As long as I
can remember, our nation’s legislative branch approved an increase in our
military’s annual budget. I ask a very important and honest question: Why?
The leaders
of the biggest and most expensive military force in the world, costing five
times more than all other militaries in the world combined, have lost every war
since WWII.
Watchdog
groups continue a decades-long claim that 50 cents of every dollar the Pentagon
has been given each year is wasted on projects which completely fail during or
after production.
West Point,
Annapolis, and the Air Force Academy continue to teach the future leaders of
our military forces tactics which will fail in all future conflicts.
The greatest
failure by an incompetent and corrupt government is their continued support for
the failures resulting from poor decisions inside the Pentagon.
For the
second time in history, the Commander-in-Chief of our military forces is a
draft dodger, and a man who once stated, “ I know more than anyone, including
our generals.”
I believe
that every agency which exists in our nation’s capital and the surrounding area
is incompetent, and fails to perform its duties to protect and serve all 340
million Americans.
Prejudice,
in the form of racism, bigotry, misogyny, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and homophobia
remain rampant within our government, military, and the oligarchs who now
control our nation’s future.
My America
has not existed for the last 44 years. Evil men whose need for power and great
wealth confirm their loyalty to desires of avarice, control over the multitude,
and the preservation of control by pure whites.
Prove me wrong.
Op-ed by James
Turnage
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Sources: https://mwi.westpoint.edu/getting-competition-wrong-the-us-militarys-looming-failure/
https://quincyinst.org/2021/12/21/in-americas-military-failure-starts-at-the-top/
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