Afghanistan War Whistleblower Roundtable

The only really legitimate way to Work Within The System is to resist from within, and to be willing to call the System on its bullshit when that becomes necessary.

The two men on the panel here did that, in the context of the Afghanistan misadventure.

There are many really golden moments here.

As when they mention that most of the people they knew who also did right “are working at Hobby Lobby now”. If they’re lucky. Plenty of them are in prison. (While the guilty and those too cowed to do anything but shut up and follow get promoted.)

As when they mention that the evil of the System evolves: We don’t have Vietnams anymore; we have proxy wars instead, with the same goals, for the same reasons.

The System is built to keep the System running the way it has always run, for the benefit of those who have always run it.

Get in their way, pay the price.

Fail to get in their way and you have to live with that.

Those are your choices in our brave modern land of liberty.