{"id":1633,"date":"2014-01-09T12:33:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T20:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/?p=1633"},"modified":"2014-02-25T15:30:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T23:30:47","slug":"why-we-died-americas-war-veterans-betrayed-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/why-we-died-americas-war-veterans-betrayed-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Died? America’s War Veterans Betrayed Again…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated 10 Jan 2014<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Newsletter comment<\/span>: America’s brave Iraq & Afghanistan vets are now asking themselves the very same questions we who fought in Vietnam have done all these many years after the fall of South Vietnam; what was it all for, why did my fellow Troopers perish, what did we actually accomplish? In the end, we fought for one another, not for some grand global cause that our politicians squandered.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It breaks my heart to see this happen again… Roger “Bear” Young<\/i>, co-editor<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why We Died: Political Validation for Veterans<\/a> by Thomas Gibbons-Neff – 8 Jan 14<\/strong><\/h2>\n

‘Nam comes to Iraq: Losing to al Qaeda, after winning<\/a> By Seth Lipsky – 9 Jan 14<\/strong><\/p>\n

Commentary: Iraq: The New Liberal Killing Field<\/a> by Allen West – 9 Jan 14<\/strong><\/p>\n

Opinion: The Worst Defeat for the United States Since 9\/11<\/a> by John Ransom – 8 Jan 14<\/strong><\/p>\n

“…A Navy veteran of Enduring Freedom, who walked the sand in Iraq, told me that he had been watching the situation ‘unfold for a while now. It’s incomprehensible to me,’ he said ‘that we lost so much there and these guys just threw it all away’…”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Robert Gates, former defense secretary, offers harsh critique of Obama’s leadership in ‘Duty’<\/a> by Bob Woodward – 7 Jan 14<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rep. Hunter: Obama has abandoned everything US fought for in Iraq<\/a> – FoxNews<\/i> – 7 Jan 14<\/strong><\/p>\n

Al Qaeda-linked militants capture Fallujah during violent outbreak, report says<\/a> – FoxNews<\/i> – 4 Jan 14<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Updated 10 Jan 2014 Newsletter comment: America’s brave Iraq & Afghanistan vets are now asking themselves the very same questions we who fought in Vietnam have done all these many years after the fall of South Vietnam; what was it … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1667,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions\/1667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}