War On The World

[weltschmerz]

Mike Pence declares war on the world at West Point

The commencement address Trump's VP, Mike Pence, gave to West Point graduates recently goes down in history for all the wrong reasons.

It was an address littered with war talk that was so extreme it was more compatible with a speech you would expect to hear from a character in a Hollywood spoof than from a leading politician and government official.



This was no spoof, though, be assured, and as such the world needs to wake up to the fact that this administration is staffed with enough cranks and crackpots to fill an entire ward.
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Though we can justifiably speculate that whoever wrote the Vice President’s speech might well have been drunk at the time, the man himself has no such excuse. He was, in fact, completely sober while delivering it to the packed assembly of military graduates arrayed in front of him. It is to be hoped that at least a few of them, listening, let loose an inner scream along the lines of “Whaaat?! Are you nuts?!”

www.rt.com/op-ed/460543-pence-west-point-war/

[spartyparty]

“Some of you will join the fight against radical Islamic terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq. Some of you will join the fight on the Korean Peninsula and in the Indo-Pacific, where North Korea continues to threaten the peace, and an increasingly militarized China challenges our presence in the region. Some of you will join the fight in Europe, where an aggressive Russia seeks to redraw international boundaries by force. And some of you may even be called upon to serve in this hemisphere. And when that day comes, I know you will move to the sound of the guns and do your duty, and you will fight, and you will win.”

Geez they're going to have to lower tax rate to 0.00% for all Americans to pay for all these wars!  

[Value Buy]

Well gee, it is West Point after all.
I guess telling them they will be the first graduating class to never actively have to face an enemy force would be what.......the right thing to say?

[billisonboard]

May 30, 2019 7:07:14 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Well gee, it is West Point after all.
I guess telling them they will be the first graduating class to never actively have to face an enemy force would be what.......the right thing to say?

The current active duty obligation for West Point graduates is 5 years. Not sure that it has been that long the entire history of the institution but I will use that length of time to ask: Has there never been a five year period of time in our nation's history that we have not had our Army "actively" engaged in combat? If the answer is "No", that is a little sad.