The Associated Press is reporting that 1 in 4 homeless are veterans. I read about this in the Washington Post Express this morning, and couldn’t help but think how right my Dad (a Vietnam Veteran) has been about this mess. We’re going to see a massive increase of drug use, crime, divorce, alcoholism, suicide and homelessness in the coming years as our men and women come home. Families are being torn apart every day. The stain on the fabric of our country grows larger with every headline coming out of the Middle East.
So terribly sad. And for what? History has shown that when we try and set up governments, even the successful ones wind up turning out bad for us in the long run. We supported the Shah in Iran, and when the people revolted, we were (and still are) held to task for the evil the Shah’s government did. We helped trained their secret police force, Savak just like we helped train the Taliban’s fighters in Afghanistan. We did all we could to stop them from nationalizing their oil resources much like we are so against Venezuela nationalizing theirs. We propped up Saddam Hussein, and we can see how well that worked out. Now we’re trying to get the Iraqis to build a government they seem to have little interest or success in building.
Throughout history we’ve been on the wrong side of things like this and I am convinced that this terrible foreign policy is destroying this country. The chickens are coming home to roost, folks… And it’s happening exponentially faster than it used to.
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