Hey Icon, what do you think of the war? I mean, I thank you for your service, and unless you were waterboarding and rendering people I think your service in the military is increadibly admirable, do you think the war itself was a good thing?
I have no issues with the war in Afghanistan. My views on the subject is if Bin Laden and his crew was responsible for an attack on American soil and the Taliban (who was the government entity in control of Afghanistan at the time) admitted Bin Laden and his crew was in their country but they won't give him up and we're not welcome to come and get him, then so be it, you asked for war. To make things better even though I guess it was none of our business, but the Taliban were and still to this day are an extremely terrible group of people and it was great for the country to get them out of power. In the area of Afghanistan I was in in 2006/2007 we were mostly fighting Taliban and not Al Queda.
Iraq on the other hand was a joke of a war, we should have never been there in any way shape or form. Our own CIA intelligence had Iraq no where near the top of the list of threats of the United States at the time, the UN found no WMD's, Donald Rumsfeld came out later and admitted there were no WMD's and resigned. The whole war was a joke. 4,500 dead and 35,000 wounded troops for no reason at all. Glad I was IT when I was there, sat in an office and occasionally fixed some routers and switches, went to the gym a lot, and chilled lol don't think I could have fought for that cause. Some will say getting Saddam out of power made it worth it, but i'm not sold on that, our invasion turned Iraq from a top 20 economy in the world to a 3rd world country that's now in the middle of brutal civil war that wasn't there before our invasion.