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[–]antireddit 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I feel like there's a huge disconnect between war on terror vets and previous vets. The WOT vets have been so slathered with benefits and used as political props by neocons and neoliberals that I get the impression most could never resist the system. Its the system rubber stamping their VA claims and giving them monthly cost of living allowances as well as tuition money so long as they attend college, and the system blowing sunshine up their ass about what war heroes they are because they pulled guard duty or played Xbox at some fob in Iraq, a neocon adventure they joined to take part in despite it making zero tactical, strategic or national security sense. Previous vets had to start working as soon as they got discharged, or face homelessness, but it seems like WOT vets have been able to milk it for years afterward.

If the system ever fell the gravy train they've been milking would stop and they'd be regarded as symbols of a failed neocon era where the US military served as political props and sank the nation into crippling debt. All while serving the interests of Israel, a country comprised of Jews that despise goyim and see the US as a big ATM machine and its military as a bunch of dimwitted goy cattle that can be rented out using American tax payer money. It's the first American military generation where I see pictures of them from when they served and a lot of them look flat out obese, or look about as fit as your average Mcdonalds employee.

I'm so disillusioned with America. It's become a symbol of everything unholy, destructive and unnatural. It's inevitable fall needs to serve as a wake up call to save Europe.

[–]TheJamesRocket 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What you said about the VA system in the U.S. military is very true. It is a gravy train for veterans. However, not all of them get to partake in it. Some veterans (especially those who have actually been in combat) fall through the cracks. These are the types who struggle with PTSD, drug addiction, and homelessness. These guys are the ones who are the most honest (or jaded) about their military service.