by Cold Hands Luke
Author: Arthur Ruger
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TUFF TALK AND GUN WEARING
by Cold Hands Luke
by Cold Hands Luke
The Saga of Crooked Donald 
Obviously I despise our current administration for more reasons than I can possibly share here. However, for me personally, one event sticks out in my memory as saying it all about this administration. When the president held his press conference regarding his additional military involvement in Afghanistan, he listed all the reasons why he was doing it. All the reasons for his actions fed his ego, and as usual he was quick to point out that he knew more than all the generals about what needed to be done. Notably absent was any acknowledgement of the suffering of the Afghan people and the need to help them through what is now a generations-long, very violent, and horribly destructive conflict. That omission said it all to me. I spent 3 deployments on Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan, and came to love the Afghan people I was there to help. Their needs are basic, yet our president didn’t even acknowledge their existence or horrific plight. We are operating on their soil and they were not even mentioned! Its is shameful. Very sad indeed. We all need to wake up. Morals, ethics, and experience matter. All the lies and blather we see daily will result in our collapse if we don’t wake up.