Ok GWOT vets. It looks like the world needs more story time because apparently they don’t get it yet. The aim is to highlight the dangers of mass unvetted migration from where we fought, and the third world as a whole. Let’s set aside all of the heinous things we’ve seen the native population do to one another. Set aside the child r*pe, bestiality, murder of innocents. Today, let’s just talk about how most of them were purpose built to enrich themselves through a culture of corruption. I’ll start: 1. We tried dissuading Afghans from planting opium in Kandahar. Tried getting them to farm saffron instead. We helped them dig ditches, lined them with rubber, and gave them equipment. They took the rubber to shingle the roofs of their homes, cannibalized the equipment for private use, sold the saffron, and planted opium anyway. 2. On payday, every single officer in an Afghan soldier’s chain of command would get a cut of their pay. Until the soldier got next to nothing. Hence why they stole everything to make ends meet. 3. In Iraq, some U.S. NGO made the locals a water park. Complete with an artificial pool and jet skis. When we turned it over, the locals drained the pool to irrigate their crops and cannibalized the jet skis for their own farming engines. (This was a stupid project so I get it….kinda) 4. In Iraq, we had to give money to local business to stimulate the economy and use “money as a weapon system”. They took millions and left the country, bought cars, or bought weapons. Thats just a few, I have many more. One could argue they steal due to poor conditions, but how is that America’s problem? You’re seeing many of these types steal billions here just this week. The thing that keeps those folks acting “correctly” over there is tyranny. A dictator. That’s why their punishments are so violent for theft and such. The West is incapable of chopping off the hand of a thief. And why should we have to? What benefit does it give us to surround ourselves with people like that? At the end of the day, in my experience, people from that area of the world will do anything to save themselves, especially the men. On a raid in Baghdad I had a target use his wife as a shield after the breach. Most will leave their women and children behind in a war zone for their own safety and never look back. Remember the images of the planes from the Afghan withdrawal? A man who will leave his family to die for his own safety is not a man I personally would want to share my neighborhood with in western civilization. You don’t have to hate these people. But you have to understand who and what they are. It would take generations to have any chance at assimilating them. How do you screen for “the good ones” from cultures that keep no records? Our experiential sampling size is simply too large to ignore. To save our civilization, we are going to have to make hard decision on who we let in, if any. For the organization below, this is not the hill to die on. For the GWOT vets, fire away. I’m sure your stories are better than mine.