Supporting the Troops

We are currently bombing 8 different countries.

Two of those countries we have been militarily involved with for almost 20 years, being Afghanistan and Iraq.

22 veterans per day commit suicide. About 20% of veterans have PTSD.

Minimum 200,000 civilians were killed in Iraq as of April 2017. About 31,000 civilian deaths in Afghanistan. Then you have all the bodies in Syria, Libya, Somalia, Yemen and Pakistan. 

We are allies with Saudi Arabia, whose government has the exact same ideology as ISIS. They are currently committing genocide in Yemen with United States weapons, which has caused mass starvation, a cholera outbreak, and a blockade of humanitarian goods, such as medicine and food.

We spend almost 800 BILLION DOLLARS (Dr. Evil voice) on our military PER YEAR. Yet, Flint still has poison water, 50% of workers in America make less than $30,000, the number one cause of bankruptcy is medical bills, and we have 50,000 homeless veterans. What am I getting at?

Maybe, just MAYBE, supporting our military and supporting offensive wars is not one in the same. MAYBE if you support our troops, you support them NOT getting PTSD or committing suicide because of wars of aggression that we started for financial/territorial gain. MAYBE, we should stop acting like you have to support bullshit wars to support the troops. I want the troops to stay alive, be healthy, and spend as much time with their families as possible. Sending them to the Middle East to fight random brown people for “freedom” (still not sure what that means) isn’t how we should support the troops. 

But what do I know? I’m a libtard.