(November 12, 2019 at 12:16 am)CarveTheFive Wrote: That was pretty funny.
Do you think it’s because of military action or simple deterrence or what?
I feel like a lot of combat veterans don’t want to hear it and gold star families especially but I genuinely believe the sacrifice is for nothing like what they claim, I mean, I really don’t believe that my rights are being protected or that I’m safer from foreign aggression at all because of what they sacrificed so I feel like it’s only right to say I don’t want people to do that. Especially since it’s, at least to me, obviously done under false pretenses. I feel like there’s very little sincerity and perhaps no sincerity when it comes to our policy making and therefore the orders our military personnel follow are fruitless. I also feel like it’s a trap to say well respect the troops. I respect the troops as human beings but I think joining the military is a bad thing to do simply because I think our foreign policy is consistently bad.
Now, I take a reserved approach because some vets are well and truly pieces of shit, but you've got to be pretty slow on the uptake if you think absolutely no military operations have made you safer from foreign aggression. Sure, we shouldn't respect people just because they're soldiers, but some select soldiers are among the most respect-worthy people in the world. Desmond T. Doss was a goddamn American hero. That's only one name among countless others.
