Millennials Want To Send Troops To Fight ISIS, But Don't Want To Serve

http://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459111960/millennials-want-to-send-troops-to-fight-isis-but-not-serve

well there yah go all those new obama immigrants wanting the white farm small town boys, to die for them in there place on the battlefields of the middle east,
do as i say not as i would do my self. very king and queen like this new generation of brats..

 

You are currently serving in the armed forces are you?

 

How is that even relevant?

 

done my time 1980 to 83 us army mostly in Germany air defense old nike Hercules site drove the trucks with the troops, up the hill from the barracks to the missile site, i had a secret clearance

 

Millenials are idiots. This isn't new news.

 

I didn't think so.

 

He, and a few others around the forum, are calling other people out for not serving, while they themselves are not. There's nothing wrong with choosing not to serve and do something else for a career. But don't criticize others for making the same choice.

 

Not all of us. I'd gladly serve with Patriotic frevor if it weren't for my CP(since birth) and Asthma(since 9.) But I'm as patriotic and devoted to my cause as any American. In fact, I see a strong military as paramount to US Security and if I ever get to Washington, I'll be one of those politicians thats the key vote for a significant and robust pro-military budget.

 

i wouldnt of fought much if the balloon up with russia at the time, we in that base on the hill would of been a primary first strike target, i would of been killed blown to bits in a matter of minutes with a Russia artillery long range rocket

 

Yeah, not all for sure. I shouldn't have made the blanket statement, but it is hard trying to find anything good and decent coming from millenials these days.

 

I think the Baby Boomers were the beginning of the decline; with Gen Xers and Millennials declining further.

I'm thinking that once the Millenials reach adulthood we might just see a net decline in economic productivity for the first time in the last century in spite of technological advances; and if we really do become too weak and dependent on technology to govern ourselves it'll probably lead to an increase in totalitarianism, because when people become too weak to govern themselves they're just going to vote for the leader who offers them the most "free stuff" and the pathway of least effort.

 

Aren't the armed services having to turn away recruitments?

I have two nephews and a niece currently serving.

Generation Y is not as afraid to fight as you think.

I call this thread bogus.

 

Baby Boomers served in Viet Nam. What is your point?

 

There are plenty of chicken hawks who resisted the Draft during Vietnam but now get all gung-ho with these conflicts in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan.

 

Your reading comprehension needs some work. He's calling out people who want a ground war in Syria, but don't want to go fight themselves. There's a big difference.

 

Better read the OP again.

 

lol, are you serious!!??

"well there yah go all those new obama immigrants wanting the white farm small town boys, to die for them in there place on the battlefields of the middle east,
do as i say not as i would do my self. very king and queen like this new generation of brats."

Clearly calling out chickenhawks, so just stop guy, you've embarrassed yourself so epically.

 

Are you serving in the military, or are you just calling out people who are calling out people for not serving in the military?

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You mean like obama ?

 

Big deal.

 

That about mirrors the attitude of the country as a whole.

There's a lot of chest thumping coming from conservatives about ISIS, Obama, Syria and Iraq, but no real action.

The GOP Congress won't suport an Authorization to Use Military Force.

Every conservative politician wants to call Obama weak, but hardly any of them are calling for sending American troops back into the Middle East. That alone underlines the blatant hypocricy of rants like this one.

Several conservative politicians have called on the President to send a "coalition" of some other country's troops to Syria, as if the President of the United States could order another country to launch a war. And these people are saying these absurd things with completely straight faces!

So, the right wing rants, but won't step up. That was true of the Iraq War too. Bush knew it. That's one of the reasons he sold it on the idea that it was going to be quick and easy. That's why he borrowed 100% of its cost, so his flag waving supporters wouldn't have to make a commitment any deeper than the cost of a bumper sticker.

Which is about the depth of committment all the jingoistic shouters on the right today are willing to make.

 

At least he's not a chickenhawk.

 

Obama has continued the longest war in American history in Afghanistan. Sent troops back to Iraq.
Has his fingerprints all over a destabilized Libya. And, is involved in the quagmire in Syria. So spare us your partisan hypocrisy.

 

Contrary to your popular right wing rants, Obama did not start civil wars in Syria or Libya. Of course, at the time, all the right wingers were screaming FOR US intervention in those countries and calling Obama weak for not doing so. Now you're all talking out of the other sides of your mouths again.

Out of one side of your mouth, you're yelling that Obama has his "fingerprints" all over Lybia and Syria, out of the other, you're ranting for more.

 

You don't got a *******n thing form me, because I've never advocated intervention in Libya or Syria.
So keep tap dancing around the fact that Obama is war mongering lite, hypocrite.

 

Where does it say that immigrants want the white folks to go fight wars for them in the article?