I suppose you can fully anticipate an unmitigated disaster like the fall of Kabul, and still be shocked, enraged and dismayed when it happens. There's no poetical expression, no meme or catchphrase that fully encompasses how I feel right now. My friends and I bled in that dirt. We sacrificed our blood, our families and our psyches for some cause, because America called and we responded.
And in one weekend, twenty years, thousands of lives, and billions of dollars stolen from the future of OUR CHILDREN went up in a puff of dust and smoke. Embarrassment we've not seen since 1975 --AND WERE PROMISED WE'D NEVER SEE--came once again at the hands of an Establishment that gives not one s--t about the nation they swore to serve.
Dozens of my friends and brothers-in-arms suffer quietly, maimed or with internal wounds like PTSD, unsure of what it means about us: we who were foolish enough to go out to war, who suffered and died, left children without their fathers, wives without their husbands and mothers without their bravest sons.
I knew Sarah Palin's son, Track. And as long as he was in the Army as an Infantryman, I knew she would never disgrace him. I had no other motivation for wanting her in the White House. That HER SON was on the line was enough for me. He is my brother, and she would conduct herself as a proper mother to us all, because he was one of us.
But she didn't win. And our mission wasted away. And politicians in Washington, London, Ottawa, Sydney, Auckland, Paris, Berlin and dozens of others, kicked the can down the road long enough for the Defense Industry to make BILLIONS off of their respective Taxpayers, and Americans to forget whatever lie was sold to us to be there in the first place.
And this weekend, I cannot hide the unfettered malice I feel to all of those responsible from George Walker Bush to Barack Hussein Obama to Donald John Trump to Joseph Robinette Biden to the entire Congress, the Pentagon, the whole Intel Community, and EVERY talking head on EVERY channel who lied, experienced a "lack of curiosity" or was "too stupid to live" and sold us the Bill of Goods that was the so-called Global War On Terror and brought us to this point, Here and Now.
God will not forgive you your malevolence and incompetence. There is an Eternal Reward waiting for each and every one of us, and there's nothing anyone can do to avoid it. God's Justice is Perfect, unlike our pantomime of it here. I pray you live a long and happy life, that you never consider repenting for your many crimes, that it never once occurs to you to repent or to make reparation to either God or man, so that in the Last Day you will have wasted any and every chance for Mercy and your damnation will be total.
Were I to let that be the last word, it would, in fact, be the worst possible curse to come from the keyboard, pen or lips of a Catholic. It is the kind of prayer that can cut off the Grace of God from an entire nation. I leave it in this post as a warning. I would prefer that you do in fact repent. I prefer that God send out His Spirit to soften your hearts, see what you have wrought, and make some sort of penance, beginning with your resignations and departure from public life, and perhaps leading to your incarceration or capitol punishment for the crimes you've committed, in the hope of saving your souls, and bringing greater glory to God. In fact, I pray for both of these, simultaneously, according to God's Will.
Your fate will be One, or the Other. I'm terribly glad it's not up to me, but up to you as to the path you will choose.
Signed,
An Offering on the Altar of Liberty, or
-Caleb the Mechanic at Radio Free Catholic
Former Infantry Staff Sergeant, US Army
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