Clay Huston

US Army Blackhawk pilot turned conscientious objector • Facts and opinions on the current “limited military action”

[Clay Huston @claybert32]

@but_im_kim_tran I’m working on a book that’s a collection of the most horrific stories from war memoirs from the 20th and 21st century. My theory is Americans don’t really know what they’re asking for when they advocate military action. I’d like to show them

[Clay Huston @claybert32]

@martyrmade This is exact right. The only way to defeat these people is to ignore them

[Clay Huston @claybert32]

Who wants to live in a world where everything is subordinate to productivity gains? Based on what you already know about Washington and governments around the world, would you say it’s wise to hand them total control over your livelihood?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI.

AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.

[Clay Huston @claybert32]

@wayofftheres @realDonaldTrump @joekent16jan19 I enjoy the merchant framing

[Clay Huston @claybert32]

@DaleStarkA10 A great tradition. This was my flight school class’s

[Clay Huston @claybert32]

@DaleStarkA10 😂😂😂

[Clay Huston @claybert32]

@wayofftheres @martyrmade Everyone wins bigly! 😂

[Clay Huston @claybert32]

Hey that would maybe also achieve their strategic goal of shutting down Iran’s proxies!!

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

A country that has nuclear weapons is threatening to use its nuclear weapons on the country it won’t allow to have nuclear weapons because if they had nuclear weapons they would ‘use them.’

[Clay Huston @claybert32]

@DanDePetris Hey, maybe the ever so allusive regime change that he doesn’t want will happen and they’ll surrender 🤷🏼‍♂️

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

CALL TO ACTION:

Tell President Trump, your Congressional Rep, & your Senators that you don't support American boots on the ground in Iran.

White House Comment Line:
[phone]

Congress Switchboard:
[phone]

This is how We the People make our voices heard. 🇺🇸

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

33,000 military veterans are currently homeless.

[Clay Huston @claybert32]

War does not please or glorify God. Only the egos of the criminals in power

[Daniel DePetris @DanDePetris]

If you want an example of how insulated and unaccountable the U.S. foreign policy elite is, well, we’re living through it right now.

Some of the same folks who assured us that deposing Saddam Hussein and installing a pro-U.S. democracy in Iraq would be cheap and easy are now, a quarter-century later, lecturing us on the importance of defeating Iran (whatever that means). And they’re selling the same snake oil they did back then by promising a new, transformative Middle East and arguing that the war will force adversaries to respect U.S. power again.

You wonder why the U.S. commits the same mistakes over and over? There’s your answer.

We have very short memories as a country. We refuse to look at history, let alone actually heed the lessons of the past. We operate on the same piss poor assumptions, continue to delude ourselves into believing the U.S. military power can will things into existence and consistently underestimate the capabilities of the enemy. And like clockwork, we fail to anticipate the consequences of our own actions. When things don’t go as planned, we put the blame on somebody else (like those entitled Europeans).

I’m not sure what accountability would entail. But what I do know is that doing the same thing and listening to the same people will lead to the same dumb results.

[James R. Webb @JamesWebb_16]

I just heard from a source very close to top of the White House that, following today’s shootdown of an F-15, an A-10, and the successful hits on multiple helicopters and other aircraft, the WH is choosing further escalation, including US troops on the ground. This would be madness. I truly hope that someone in the Pentagon or elsewhere can prevent this from happening. If anything was proven today, it’s that Iranian AD is still very capable and very intact.

Any US ground operation will be heavily reliant on helicopters and other slow-moving airframes. Despite the assertions of both the Pentagon and POTUS, it is crystal clear that we have not reduced Iranian AD to the point where a ground operation is even a remotely wise decision. Let alone potentially inserting by air and then being exclusively reliant on an air corridor for things such as resupply and CASEVAC. History is replete with examples where this reliance has been disastrous.

Further, the hard part would be after troops were on the objective. Our lack of manpower leaves little room for maneuver, and once static (which would be required), Americans will become a stationary target for the entire inventory of Iranian indirect fire capabilities on Iranian soil, and it is a recipe for failure.

Simply put, this is not an existential war for the US's survival. It’s a war of choice that should never have happened in the first place, and POTUS should be finding a way out, rather than clumsily and recklessly sacrificing America’s finest.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

The United States has spent EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS fighting and policing in the Middle East. Thousands of our Great Soldiers have died or been badly wounded. Millions of people have died on the other side. GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER MADE.....

[Clay Huston @claybert32]

Every pilots worst nightmare… Centcom denied it 21 hours ago. I guess the situation has changed.

[CNN @CNN]

A US fighter jet was shot down over Iran and a search is underway for the crew, three US sources and Iranian state media say https://t.co/J95TXlxkC5

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

After the U.S. Army graciously raised the enlistment age to 42, not one pro-war conservative podcaster or media figure has signed up. Fascinating.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

End the war.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

The sloganeering went from “Free Iran,” to, “Bomb all civilian infrastructure and leave 90 million people without clean water or medical care.”