Damn, solidifies another big loss for America, but given how the government treated me personally over the situation, I don't personally feel like it is my personal loss. They made their own decisions to have other people running the show and keep me out of it, but all of the troops I trained, or at least trained under my direction, came back with their individual missions accomplished and no significant injuries.

The political landscape here is going to be changing greatly, and I think for the better over the next ten years as the old guard gets washed away and a new Republican pro-freedom party emerges over the next few elections, evicting the old guard and soundly defeating the Democrats who presided over America's biggest losses of the century so far.

You look at the late 1970s to early 1980s, it was pretty good for personal rights and the US State Department was getting into building goodwill overseas for the most part. There was some fuckups in the military, but the military has learned from it and I don't think is degrading in the post-Iraq years as much as it degraded in the post-Vietnam years.