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How in hell was the entire Vietnam fiasco” in the best interests of our country"? All our colonial wars since have been even more useless. Wars to make warmongers and suppliers ever wealthier off public money benefits only them while impoverishing the rest of us. Not to mention the thousands maimed, insane or dead veterans and unlucky civilians.
If you join today's Army you are not defending the country but only the war profiteers and the proselytizers that would spread their warped Christianity to the Muslim world.
Naturally the common people don't want war. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship. All you have to do is to tell them that they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
Hermann Goering
We also need to banish military recruiters, who rank somewhere below pimps and somewhere above used car salesmen on the morality scale, from our public high schools. I had no idea these creatures could have unfiltered access until I saw them at a local high school during lunch, free to unleash their BS on high school kids who have no parents present to provide some sort of buffer or voice of reason.
Ummm no thanks. I don't feel like being the property of the US Government, nor do I want to fight somebody elses wars. When there is a threat of war on our shores from another country, sure I'll fight to protect my homeland. However; I don't see that happening anytime soon.
Actually it is the elites - the wealthy and educated - who are the defenders of democracy and liberty. The "citizens" would have us in chains in no time if they really held power.
The wealthy/educated only defend democracy/liberty for themselves and their corporations while the rest of us are no more than slave labor; the game is fixed.
How do you know if a military recruiter is lying? HIS LIPS ARE MOVING.
What you say is not true. The recruiter is to be respected.
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Best interests of our country?
