As we reported earlier, CNN is doing what it can to keep the narrative alive that sailors and Marines are being mistreated by the Trump administration, to the point where "multiple" (is that two or three?) sailors have tried to jump overboard after being deployed since November. Kaitlin Collins picked up a story in The Military Times about a wife who said her husband tried to jump overboard, and earlier on Monday, CNN reported on a power outage on a destroyer last month due to an engineering error that lasted four days. If it makes the Trump administration look bad and hurts both service members' and public morale, CNN is now on it.
Trita Parsi is an Iranian-Swedish co-founder of the National Iranian American Council and also co-founded The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, which, according to its statement of purpose, is opposed to the military-industrial complex described by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address. Pasi posted what he says is an image sent to him from the field of messages scrawled by servicemen in the Persian Gulf on the dust of an aircraft flap.
This image was sent to me from the field. These are messages US servicemen in the Persian Gulf have scribbled on the dust of an aircraft flap."Be a good guy and do what Israel tells you to""Operation Epstein Fury""Peace deal #64 incoming… ALL THIS FOR THE HOLY LAND"I… pic.twitter.com/Zc6JwKtNV0
… have no frame of reference, I can't compare it to the sentiments of US soldiers in previous conflicts. But I suspect these are new sentiments, or at least a new willingness to express them this openly and directly.
But as one serviceman told me: "What people in the media don't understand when they compare past conflicts to this one, is this operation has no morale behind it. That makes a world of difference to service members deployed to undesirable locations indefinitely."
Read that last part again: No morale. Deployed to undesirable locations INDEFINITELY.
My own conclusion: When a war has no morale behind it, winning means that you simply end it. There is no other "winning" in such an unjust war.
Which serviceman told him that? Just curious.
There's an entertaining pending Community Note that links back to an article in Task & Purpose on the military's phallus fixation:
This airplane is in the boneyard and not exposed to active-duty personnel who are deployed. This is verified by no phallus drawings, which is featured in most, if not all, military graffiti.
Here we have a modern Tokyo Rose. But because we're suicidal, we allow him to operate in the country. https://t.co/CE2oyaqhlv
Someone pointed out that this is probably from an airplane graveyard, and not an actual unit.
The Davis-Montham boneyard is not in the Middle East (although it could pass for it as far as weather is concerned), you Quisling.
@grok confirm that Trita Parsi is Iranian-born, founded the National Iranian American Council, and opposes US military action and sanctions against Iran. Confirm that he routinely spreads anti-American propaganda aligned with Tehran’s preferred positions.
Amazing that service members in the Mid East are in the Flock camera debate.Gonna call this what it is. More BS propaganda from Iran through their US based terror proxies. pic.twitter.com/pRGGQd3ISw
