The ban is in effect through Bastille Day in order to prevent “serious disturbances” to public order, the French government announced Sunday.

  • Quokka@quokk.au
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    Why does that strike you as odd? America doesn’t care about its veterans.

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      Unfortunately our military is way too big to give veterans the proper care they need.

      I think the average person wants to support veterans, but when you have 26 million of them it makes it extremely costly.

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          I absolutely agree, I’m conservative and am fine with cutting 80% of our foreign military activity.

          Using that money to help folk here including veterans.

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            I feel like agreeing is some sorta trap for some reason.

            All I know is I protested the Iraq war and I protested our involvement with the “moderates” in Syria.

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              I don’t think it’s a trap.

              I was only 9 when we invaded Iraq, I wasn’t in much of a position to protest.

              But seeing for the majority of my life, how that played out, along with studying American history and our involvement in other countries the last ~70ish years has made me a borderline military pacifist. We spent some 10-20 trillion on an endless war that got us absolutely nothing, and killed millions of people across the world. What Americans life was positively impacted from that?

              I’m almost always going to say to stay out of foreign conflicts going onward.