(September 27, 2016 at 7:24 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Well, first off, we're not bombing North Korea. And while your list is both true and odious, they were largely devoid of involvement by our military. The blame lies much more in Foggy Bottom, Langley, and the Oval Office than it does the Pentagon.
And while as a veteran agree that we aren't often defending ourselves in our foreign (mid) adventures, having troops stationed in foreign countries is a form of defending our country, because 1) we want to fight wars on soil other than our own, and 2) supporting our alliances is a form of defense.
As I said, there are many military policies and operations I was and am against. But I wouldn't disrespect the service performed by my brothers and sisters in uniform.
But the soldiers are the ones that enforce the shit that the lawyers in congress and the white house come up with. In the words of Einstein, war will only stop when people refuse to go. People with money and power are always going to wage war to protect and expand their property, and they use a bunch of clueless young people with false senses of nationalism and duty to do it. If the people refused to go to war, then the rich and powerful would have no choice but to either think harder about how they're going to secure their property, or they'll have to fight for themselves. It's time people started waking up to the real reasons behind these wars, and that WWII was the last justified war or military conflict that the US has ever gotten involved in.
Ron Paul has it right when it comes to our foreign policy.
