How Can Anyone Think The US Military Is Doing a Good Job?

[Realistic]

Right off the bat, I want to state I'm not talking about the entire history of the US armed forces. I'm talking about the modern US military.

The surge proved one thing - the US military transformed itself, by sheer stupidity, into the underdog. The surge's very existence remains an explicit admission of failure. If events in Iraq proceeded in a better way, one wouldn't reccommend a surge in the first place. If things were going better, one wouldn't argue a need to maintain a surge.

Obviously the military is not doing a good job. Only a biased, subjective twit would conclude otherwise.

Five years and no Bin Laden. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq rage on. Nearing a trillion dollars in treasure spent and no end to the wars in sight. Iran, of all nations, has exploited the situation. In a cruel twist of fate to the Americans, Iran finds herself in a strengthened position then the mullah heads ever dreamed possible in 2003.

And some think the US military has done a good job?

My question is what the hell are they good at? With all seriousness, what the hell are they good at? Again, what is it Americans think the US military is good at?

Firing $25 million dollar missles to kill two, maybe three low level insurgents and their infant children? Losing millions of dollars in Humvees to one dollar pipe bombs?

The poor souls even failed to complete their main mission (catching Osama) before purposefully agreeing to, or going along with, creating another problem (the Iraq war).

With all honestly, the current US military is really and I mean really capable of following the orders of people who don't know what they're doing. That much is certainly clear.

I do really want to know, what the hell are these guys good at?

Don't give me that patriotic garbage either. I want hard real world answers.

[David Alexander]

The military budget is more bloated than Dick Cheney’s stomach. :lmao2:

Just because the military is huge doesn’t mean it’s competent. If the U.S. military would concentrate on recruiting physically and intellectually capable individuals, we would be better off. But instead, we’re stuck with country bumpkins who make Forrest Gump seem like Albert Einstein.

[Bill]

The military is trained for field wars, not for occupations.

It's not entirely the military's fault that they were tasked by civilians leaders to do a job they aren't intended to accomplish.

If we are going to be enslaving many more countries, we will have to train an entirely new type of military force to do the job of occupation.

Occupation is ugly business.

[AVG_JOE]

If the Commander in Chief had given the troops a winnable mission from the start and followed up with enough guys to get the job done they might be done now.

Thankfully, Bush & Rumsfield weren't calling the shots when the time came to invade Europe in the 40's...

If you don't follow 'shock and awe' with 'occupy and secure', you end up in 'IraQuagmire'...

Oh, well! Uncle Dick sez: "If it ain't good for our business and America... Fuck America!"

-Joe

[Moby]

I think the military has done exactly what we sent them to do 6 years ago. The problem was that we didn't follow up with rebuild and secure.

Now we're asking marines to build walls and act like the police. That's not what they do.