Colin Powell: You Break it, You Own It

Unless you’re a sociopath of some sort, it’s extremely painful watching the scenes coming out of Ukraine. My heart breaks for these people.

A tremendous about of stupidity being espoused by those in America who to my knowledge never served our country in war unless you count Lindsey Graham who was a military jag. This isn’t like Top Gun with Maverick and Mother Goose just flashing into Russian air space and putting this to an end. War is horrific and very non-glorious.

One of my uncles served in the European Theatre in WWII as an expert sniper. He lied about his age being he was too young to serve. He won two Purple Hearts and when he came back he literally didn’t speak to anyone for over a year. Sat on his sister’s porch and smoked a pipe in silence. He was probably never the same person.

To Nixon’s credit, after his disgraceful exit from power, he at least had the minimal sense God gave a dirt clod to keep his mouth shut for a period of time before he resurfaced to make an occasional comment here or there about American foreign policy.

But not the case with Donald Trump and his band of warrior bunions on the Fox propaganda network which btw nets Rupert Murdoch and one of his sons a cool net profit of $1 billion each last time I looked it up.

Since none of those people have ever done anything as far as serving our country…I would at the least do some research on what you hear on the Fox Propaganda Network.

Colin Powell passed just year from Covid and I’m sure to the very end he regrets the speech he made to the U.N. about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But whatever you believe in relation to that speech…one thing is clear the U.S. hasn’t done well in intervening in countries with the hope of nation building since the Marshall Plan.

Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria just to jog our collective recent memory didn’t end well.

Ukraine is the size of Texas with a population of 44 million people. Now…just for a second imagine you put 44 million Trump lunatics inside of Texas and then had the daunting task of financing and governing these idiots for a prolonged period of time.

See my point.

Nation building is tough.

So… I hope what we as a country do is take a deep breath and aid the Ukrainians in their fight for liberty with weapons and humanitarian aid, but with the thought this is their war for freedom.

In closing…remember how quickly the Afghan military folded after we departed this summer. Iraq never wanted us there. Syria was a disaster and the mistake of staying in Vietnam cost LBJ the legacy of being one of the five greatest presidents in American history.

We can’t keep fighting every single war which breaks out around the world.

Because in the end, if you break it, you own it.

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