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Sat morning read: Profiles in Absurdity: Remembering the ‘Terror’ Wars

 
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Sat morning read: Profiles in Absurdity: Remembering the ‘Terror’ Wars
As an ex infantry NCO, I found this article resonating with my observations. I urge you to read it as well:



Profiles in Absurdity: Remembering the ‘Terror’ Wars

'Lower Caters to Higher'
by Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.)
Posted on September 03, 2019

"...I propose to tell a number of very different sorts of stories – profiles, so to speak, in absurdity. That’s what war is, at root, an exercise in absurdity, and America’s hopeless post-9/11 wars are stranger than most. My own 18-year long quest to find some meaning in all the combat, to protect my troops from danger, push back against the madness, and dissent from within the army proved Kafkaesque in the extreme. Consider what follows just a survey of that hopeless journey..."

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"...The war was never rational, winnable, or meaningful. It was from the first, and will end as, an exercise in futility. It was, and is, one grand patrol to my own unnecessary outpost, undertaken at the wrong time and place. It was a collection of sociopaths and imbeciles – both Afghan and American – tilting at windmills and ultimately dying for nothing at all..."
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