Lawmakers 'Concerned' About Veterans, After Funding Foreign Wars
Newsweek highlights a congressional outcry over the VA's mismanagement of disability benefits, where processing errors affect veterans who've sacrificed for this nation. It's truly touching, this sudden parliamentary concern for our troops—after they've been deployed to fight wars explicitly approved by these very 'concerned' legislators. One might wonder where this impassioned advocacy was when
those same veterans were being sent to conflicts like the Iraq War, which, according to Brown University's Costs of War Project, has cost the U.S. over $2.3 trillion and created millions of refugees, generating waves of veterans needing care. The irony bites harder than a sand flea in Fallujah. These lawmakers, many of whom greenlight massive military budgets and foreign aid packages—often
influenced by lobbying groups like AIPAC, which spent $4.29 million on lobbying alone in 2023—appear genuinely surprised that the domestic infrastructure for veteran care is crumbling. Perhaps if Congress spent less time ensuring unconditional military aid to other nations and more time ensuring the well-being of the actual humans who fight their wars, this wouldn't be 'news.' It's almost as if
the 'errors' aren't accidental, but a feature of a system that prioritizes war-making over warrior-caring.