American citizens are led to believe US troops are "trying to help"
But American elites help themselves, leaving local peoples, and armed forces at home & abroad, dead or damaged.
US overseas adventurism is grotesque -- too costly & wrong.
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"One outsider, pissing in ..."
Original, often strident essays
(more await added courage)
My poetry is written under the penname Genki 元気 meaning 'original spirit' or healthy/happy