RE: North Korean minister of defense executed
May 13, 2015 at 9:35 pm
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2015 at 9:36 pm by Pyrrho.)
(May 13, 2015 at 9:22 pm)AFTT47 Wrote:(May 13, 2015 at 8:47 pm)Minimalist Wrote: When people had an interest in war..like Vietnam when they could be drafted and sent there they actually did get off their asses and do something. But now, the burden falls on such a small burden of the population that all people think they have to do is put a "Support Our Troops" magnet on their car and their duty is done.
I don't know if it's that simple.
I did ten years in the US Air Force. I participated in the first gulf war in the 1990-1992 time frame. I'm maybe a little to the right regarding national defense although far-left socially. I'm definitely not one of those gung-ho guys who feels the need to broadcast his/her military service with bumper stickers or T-shirts. I can tell you though that everyone of us I've known or met are proud of our service. I've never known a single one of us who was resentful of what we were asked to do. Not to say that they're aren't any but I've never known one.
You mean people in the military are not resentful when they are sent into harm's way frivolously, or under false pretenses? You do know, I presume, that Saddam Hussein did not have "weapons of mass destruction," nor was there any good reason to believe he did? Do you think it was okay to send people into harm's way based upon falsehood and lies?
Maybe I am a strange fellow, but I don't like sending other people to their deaths based on bullshit. And I would be incredibly resentful if some asshole sent me on a dangerous mission based on such nonsense. However, I am not in the military, and have not been treated thusly. But are you saying that people in the military feel differently, and do not mind if our leaders send them to their deaths based on total bullshit lies?
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
