What
happens when you have an hour-long cable-TV discussion about U.S.
intervention, only instead of the usual mix of Sabbath-gasbags and
armchair hawks and doves, the conversation took place with military
veterans? Tune into the Fox Business Network tonight at 9 p.m. ET
(6 p.m. ET), and again three and five hours later, to find out.
Spoiler alert: It’s a helluva lot more real, funny, occasionally
brutal, and frankly skeptical about war aims, politics, and funding
than 95 percent of what you normally see on television.
Tonight’s lineup on this special theme episode of The
Independents includes:
* Three-war veteran
and former Army First Lieutenant Bryan Suits, now a
KABC radio host, who will talk about the obfuscation surrounding
the term “boots on the ground,” and also the futility of turning
the tip of the national spear into social-working
nation-builders.
* Former Navy aviator and
intelligence operations officer, and current Fox News correspondent
Lea Gabrielle, who
will offer some qualified support for President Barack Obama’s
military and rhetorical strategy against the Islamic State.
* Former Air Force Sgt. and current editor of Breach
Bang Clear David Reeder, who will talk about the many
different flavors of mission creep.
* Cato
Institute defense/homeland-security research fellow Benjamin
Friedman, who will talk about the problems associated with a huge
military budget.
* Retired Army Lt. Col. Ralph
Peters, who will talk about how defense spending should be
reformed to help improve the existing military and its
missions.
* Iraq War vet and former Marine Dan Caldwell of Concerned
Veterans for America, who will talk about whether he would still
advise young people to join the Armed Forces, and what the
veterans’ perspective is on Obama’s latest war.
It’s a frank and illuminating show, and I hope you tune in. For
a taste of what it might be like, here’s the duck-bearded
military/law enforcement trainer Kyle Lamb from
Wednesday night’s episode:
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