@soryang Every war everywhere in all of history was fought to steal treasure. A righteous excuse to conduct it must be fabricated. Fight the commies! Fight the Fascists! Even our misnamed Civil War, which was actually the US invading a sovereign Confederacy, was due to the South refusing to pay tariffs. The South was not allowed to have nice things, like lucrative trade with England.
I found the Iraq War to be embarrassing, but I haven't had a day in my adult life that I didn't find something about my country that shamed me.
I was 17 when Woodstock happened. It has stayed in my rebellious mind since then. Give me an "F"!
A radio station that played rock music emanated out of the Univ. of Texas campus. Me and my college pals made it a point to have the station playing at midnight when it shut down for the night. The sign off song was the recording of Hendrix performing the Star Spangled Banner on the stage at Woodstock.
Well, we could'a been great, friend. We got blinded by those dollar signs in our eyes.
Thanks for the videos! I ran out of time yesterday and missed that Newfal vid. We can all learn a lot, and remember our hippy days with Country Joe and the Fish!

I studied them, I briefed them in the old days. I never was impressed with them. I did play with toy soldiers as a child under ten. My uncle a WWII veteran, sold models as a hobby, so I did build a couple as a child. The coverage of piles of corpses from WWII, the holocaust, Nanking, Hiroshima, etc., kept the fantasy under strict limits. Also, Country Joe.

In the mideast, the colonization of the minds of the vassal states by Lord Cromer style orientalism didn't allow them to see reality, till Iran shoved it in their face. There was no cost benefit analysis by the US in the over extension of its massive base structure, it's imperial misadventures, and its developing obsolescence. In East Asia the extensive US base structure, the legacy of WWII, even as it is constantly updated in an ongoing grift, is understood to be only a tripwire. Now the inference drawn there, is that the tripwire is a fiction. This was suspected for several years before the Iran fiasco we now have.

Okay, Commander Bobby Jones, no doubt has quite a bit of practical experience. I like the guy, and usually agree with his views. As a child, he was super impressed by the celebration after the first Iraq War. As an older person, I wasn't impressed even at the time. A veteran friend I had been close to, said excitedly at the time, "Hey, we finally won one!" To me the "military feat" was in the same category as Grenada, and Panama. Iraq was never anything more than a small state obviously without the means to stop the US led multi national invasion. How ironic that the so called revolution in military affairs has gone in the other direction.

Thanks for the Odds & Ends, OtC! I often think of the evidentiary impact, of internet comms, AI, etc. How would this look in discovery? At hearing, at trial? What a nightmare I think it must be in actual practice.