Rants & Raves

For 20 years we've sent them our best trainers and equipment to prepare them for the day when we would leave.  They knew that this day would come.
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2,500 young Americans gave their lives so that they might taste freedom.  Thousands more left their limbs, blood and sanity behind for the same cause.
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All we asked them to do was be willing to give up their tribal, ancient, corrupt, caveman mentalities and be willing to fight for that freedom themselves.
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And they wouldn't.  The Afghan "military" apparently folded like cheap chairs, exchanging their uniforms for their traditional nightshirts before the first Taliban Toyotas even came into view.  Even worse, they didn't even destroy the military hardware we gave them and now the enemy has some of the finest killing hardware known to man.
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So, I'm at the point where I don't know whether to despise such humans that willingly wasted all that we sacrificed, or just be indifferent and be glad we've finally, finally, cut our losses and got out to leave them to whatever existence they want.
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On September 15, 2001 I began a 10 day stretch assigned to Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team III (DMORT III) which had deployed to Somerset County PA to process the remains of those who went down with United Flight 93.  My job was to photograph the remains as they went through the ID process.  
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My partner, Tpr. Chuck Stitt, and I took over 1,000 pictures of what was left -what they could find, what they could sift out of the dirt and pick from the trees- of the human beings that were on United Flight 93.  
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I said it often during those 10 days and after -and I know it bothered some- that if the president's first name was Wayne instead of George I would have ordered the joint chiefs to present me with a plan to cover every inch of Afghanistan with a nuclear blast radius.  Yes, the world would have gasped in horror and it would have accused me of all kinds of things but the message would have been loud and clear and 20 years later we would not be right back at Square 1 with the same enemy armed with the latest military hardware at our expense.
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Now, they've beaten us, and they're emboldened.  What they've learned is that Osama was right.  America does not have the will to fight to win.  Our politicians go weak in the knees and worry about what the world might say if the US appears to be too brutal while killing the enemy.
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Will an enemy, emboldened with the belief that their god led them to victory over the infidels stop fighting?  Hardly, and anyone who thinks as much knows absolutely nothing about their version of Islam.
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After my 10 days in that morgue I read everything I could about Islam, including the Quran.  I wanted to understand how, why, humans could be so inhuman to other innocents humans. Islam, in its fundamental form, is a viscous religion.  Their version of Islam commands them to take their fight to the world until the world is Islamic.  All the world.
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And now, in their minds, Allah has given them victory in a 20 year battle with the second worst infidels on earth.  It is highly unlikely that they'll thank him by minding their own business.
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I think America, indeed the world, just became a very much more dangerous place. 

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