2010 mid-term elections and the forgotten heroes

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The Washington Post analyzes the impact of the 2010 Mid-term Elections and its impact on current administration policies.

SFTT Analysis:

  • To be clear, SFTT is an apolitical and non-partisan organization, regardless of the 2010 mid-term election results, or any future elections for that matter.  However, it is prudent to monitor the political calculus now emerging in Washington as it affects national security policies and the resources required to sustain our fighting men and women engaged in perpetual combat.
  • Of note, as Americans exercised their right to vote these past three weeks (i.e. early voting and absentee voting) more than 300,000 servicemembers were serving on the front lines of democracy securing that right.
  • Tragically the immeasurable price of freedom during this US election period was forty-two American lives and approximately 315 wounded in action in Afghanistan and Iraq, but not a single politician, that raised their hands in victory last night, made mention of this sacrifice.
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  1. Mike  November 4, 2010

    Many who rode popular discontent into the House did so on discussions of fiscal responsibility. The day when most or all parties and candidates make a permanent platform of utmost personal responsibility with the way the troops’ lives, bodily sacrifices, hard work and long suffering are spent is the beginning of a more fundamental renewal.

    Our troops, no less than anyone else, are not mere ‘units of production’ or ‘labor units’ or ‘revolutionary ideologues’ but they are Americans, full fledged persons with the same rights that everyone else enjoys. What they are not, by choice, are people who get to enjoy all of the rights and privileges the rest of us do all of the time. They undertake hazards undreamed of by most civilians and they get paid multiples less than many on Wall Street who routinely risk other people’s money at little risk to self. Yet they risk all for less.

    When leaders anywhere, anytime, wherever they sit on the aisles, spend other peoples’ lives lightly, cheaply or as a political-economic calculus instead of a national defense calculus, it is an abomination.

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