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not sure if many people want to join and be deployed to the middle east and die for no reason other than to fuel the senseless American war machine .....
Please grow up! The days of massed battles on land involving large numbers of troops are over, save in the Third World. Even in the darkest days of World War II, the most elite among the Allied fighting units sought, and relied upon volunteers. And as demonstrated in the First Gulf War, a modern technically-oriented fighting force can make mincemeat of a massed army fighting with outdated tactics. The "highway of death" upon which the Iraqi army was decimated was so sickening that American commanders were reluctant to finish the job, and allowed Saddam Hussein to escape.
So of course, come the events of 9/11/01 and the rise of Islamic terrorism, the strategy reverted to a guerilla war, forcing American troops to go into the countryside and face death and/or mutilation from Improvised Explosive devices (IED's) and the like. And of course, since the average American teenybopper has the sensitivity and historical perspective of a child, it was easy to cultivate domestic dissent in the manner of the Vietnam conflict. There were a number of instances in which the most militant of the Lefties were caught expressing their hopes for higher casualties.
The unfortunate fact is that the role of "global policeman" has fallen upon the strongest of the nation-states since their emergence at the close of the Middle Ages. Hopefully, as the number of "tested" democracies with open economies grows, it will become possible to create a true multinational police force with the ability to identify and suppress a dwindling number of "thug nations"; but as usual, it's easy to see who the Lefties are pulling for.
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Originally Posted by reed067
Not trashing the soldiers just the government who used them for their own greed.
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Originally Posted by Natural510
Cutting the social safety net to (unnecessarily) expand the military, a Republican administration stand-by.
Lame excuses for (and from) a simple, gullible mindset.
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not sure if many people want to join and be deployed to the middle east and die for no reason other than to fuel the senseless American war machine .....
Uncle Sam rejected me at 17 for a torn rotator cuff that didn't affect my physical abilities or ability to hit a silhouette target out to 1000 yards.
Surely he won't take me now.
I'm a veteran...and proud of it. The war I was in was unjust...yet still I went. The willingness to fight and, yes, maybe to die, for our freedoms is one of the things that ensures that those same freedoms endure.
I see all the cynicism here---and I wonder how the same people who claim to support freedom--are unwilling to fight for it. You see, you don't get to pick and choose your wars..our leadership does that..hence how important it is to exercise our franchise. I hear a lot about the war on terrorism...and how important it is. Yet...not willing to sacrifice?
It's OK though...if you're comfortable with others fighting and dying..for you...that's OK.
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Serving your Country is a bad thing?
