Quickie

Just a quick blurb before I'm out the door, meetings and appointments today so I will try my hardest to get a decent post in later this evening. Warning, I just watched bits and pieces of Fox & Friends this morning and haven't really gotten a chance to read what the heck is going on, therefore what I'm about to write is just from bits and pieces.

So, we're really going to trust Russia to help Syria gather all their nuclear weapons and stash them in one place and let the international community keep an eye on them? This just doesn't sit right with me. I know that the administration has signaled that it won't send bombs, or boots, in but let's face it, it's only a matter of time. If you seriously think that we won't be invading Syria (even though we have no business doing so since there's no credible threat to the US and we'd be aiding the same people who have bombed us, helped jihadists shoot up a base and bomb a marathon) just give it time. Someone will find a way and we'll be over there, even if it's just a surprise to save face for the administration. I'm sure that they're not taking Congress not supporting this well, but give it time. However, if the president keeps pushing for what is basically a stall in pay raises for the military, he's going to have a tough time convincing them to support this mess (side note to the military families who voted this fool in, are you finally ashamed that you did and ready to take that damn "O 2012" bumper sticker off your car?). And if you say, well your family is lucky enough to get a pay raise. Dude, it's ONE PER CENT. We don't really see it because of taxes. You want these guys to go to war for you, give them and their families a better incentive. Give up your fancy salaries (you too Congressmen), give up your fancy vacations and stuff and make sure that the funding is there for troop readiness. With all your politics and bullshit sequestration stuff troop readiness is not at its peak. Add it war weariness, you definitely don't have a case. The people have spoken, the troops who actually do work over there have spoken. Just let it die the way you have let every other so-called phony scandal die. Maybe it's time you start working on getting answers for the families that lost loved ones in Benghazi, you know where Americans actually were threatened and killed. Maybe it's time you focus less on the Syrians and more on repealing Obamacare. Just thoughts from this war weary Army wife.