Harris Insults the Troops

No ‘war zone,’ Eh? Tell it to the families of the sailors at sea.

U.S. Navy via Wikimedia Commons
A guided-missile destroyer, U.S.S. Laboon, arrives at Naval Station Norfolk in 2011. U.S. Navy via Wikimedia Commons

People say President Trump has problems acknowledging reality, but by my lights the most factually disconnected statement of the many that were made in Tuesday night’s debate between Trump and Vice President Harris was the false claim that America is at peace.

“As of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world, the first time this century,” Ms. Harris dissembled. Maybe she has been too busy with debate preparation to be briefed fully by the Defense Department?

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