Soldier Blasts Biden After Getting Charged for Gear He Left in Afghanistan

that is true. Obesity is a major cause. However, that has to do with sugar and large portion sizes at a restaurant. If you take a typical Tex-Mex dinner, say an enchilada dinner, the caloric intake alone is over 1600 calories. Now add breakfast and lunch where you can have at least 800 calories to each of those meals, then add sitting in an office from anywhere 8 to 10 hours a day, with little to no exercise. And what do you get, a fat population? And yet people complain profusely about paper straws vs plastic straws, Michelle Obama's guidelines to nutrition, etc. And this is the result. For the mentally ill, if you are with a psychologist long enough, I am sure they will find some mental illness to cope with, but not all mental illnesses are bad, are they or can disallow a person to serve, can they? Only the most severe ones can reject a person from serving in the military. Having a fear of heights is not going to reject anyone from serving generally, but may not be best suited for airborne school, would they? Depression is also something that is coming into focus. It is hard to tell if someone is using that as an excuse or as a reason, but people can get depressed from the loss of job, the loss of a family member, or other such traumatic events. However, there are ways to cope with depression and there are places and groups, including churches, that can help someone with depression, which can be transitory. I don't think we are weaker. Complacent yes, but not weaker whether one is gay, transgender, straight, or whatever. It is just that everyone is now trying to play the victim card these days in a political sense. And that is just too damn foolish IMO. To give you an example, Trump loves to dish it out. But it a person dishes out back at him, he plays the victim card, doesn't he? To me, that is a sign of weakness, is it not? Or is playing victim in that case more or less of the lack of character on Trump's part? Or is Trump simply using victim here as an excuse and not the reason? I will let you decide on which of those is correct.

With obesity, that is a problem with recruitment, so is a tight job market, so is a robust economy. All of these things contribute to a lack of recruitment and really has nothing to do with who is in the WH or not.

Finally, to give you another example, in the 1990s, we had recruitment problems as well. But we had a strong selling point, anti-communism, in which people did serve based on that ideal. But when the Berlin Wall fell down, and we no longer had a cold war, recruitment went down until after September 11, 2001. for the first time in over a decade, we met or exceeded our recruitment goals for the military. And that was because of one significant event in our history, not who was in the WH. But that did not last forever about 10 years, and it then slowly started turning negative.

 

In this case, the appeal to authority is correct, instead of internet posters. Just being a cynic doesn't make it right.

If you anything about recruitment, it is much better during recession or hard economic times. As of now, there are plenty of opportunities out there.

 

Dude, of all the complaints to make about government, this ain't one. Pay for politicians is mandated by the constitution. And politicians make a pretty modest salary in the grand scheme of things. Biden was payed modestly for his time serving the country over the last 40 years. He made his fortune on book deals, speaking engagements, and real estate. That hasn't cost you a dime and that is not your money.
Furthermore, I didn't realise we could request a refund for any person in government or action by government that we didn't approve of. Good to know

 

Oh, here we go... "if you dont agree with me, then you just must be ignorant."

I served in the Army. I was involved in several withdrawls.

Were you?

Yes. And that failure is also pointed at as a failure as well.

And?

Was the Biden Administration not aware of the timeline or something?

Again. And?

What does that have to do with the failed withdrawal by the Biden Administrstion?