(10-13-2023, 12:04 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: (wagging my finger) Like I said, don’t get emotionally or ideologically invested in this. It’s an endless conflict that will consume those who get too close. There’s absolutely no advantage in getting riled up over events in which we have no control.

I’ll step off my soapbox now.

It's a weird one for me. I am not Pro-Israel nor Pro-Palestine. Just Pro-Life and Pro-American in this situation as the same with any major, global conflict. I just have no faith in our leadership and how they're using our tax dollars and it's sickening that we see it washed in so much blood around the world. 

It's weighed on me. A lot. Clearly. The older I get, the more fired up and passionate I get. I have lost a lot of good friends to these Wars for these rich folks to benefit from with no resolution in sight. The way our country turns it's back on we, the people, and, our veterans that helped pave this road to hell we're all on now for these people? 

It's disturbing. It truly, truly bothers the hell out of me. Not trying to get overly personal. But, my eyes are hollow from all of this [BLEEP] I have seen. I see it with my wife and her family as well. It's like the Bosnian war for them all over again. They have PTSD from barely getting out of there alive and losing their homes, friends they grew up with. 

I just genuinely worry about the future of our country. That's all it boils down to. I feel like the more we get invested and involved with these issues abroad? The more and more we weaken and stretch ourselves thin as a country. I know I can be too idealistic at times, however, I think it's fair to question the mainstream narratives and how our dollars are being used.

Most of us on here, we won't live long enough to see our retirement and we're getting gouged yearly to the tune of 2, 3 months of our income going out in a increasingly harder economy to scrape by in. So, sorry if I come off as a little emotionally invested too much here, or, out of touch with reality. 

Can you forgive me though? The more I see the less I believe.

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