(July 27, 2017 at 3:24 pm)Lutrinae Wrote:(July 27, 2017 at 3:23 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Can you think of any military action by any country in history that you support?
Nope.
You are living in a utopia. Just like other species compete for resources humans are no different. It would be wonderful if there were no human conflicts between groups, but that is the reality we live in. So if you are going to give me the choice of having an imperfect government with a military, or having no military and say allowing China or Iran invading us and over running us, sorry, I am going to choose that imperfect government.
As I said in a prior post, the better argument would be to argue long term foreign policy and long term military tactics. But a military will happen regardless and it is wrong to blame the individual military member. Theocracies like Iran and Saudi Arabia and dictatorships like North Korea have military as well.
I hate war and do prefer diplomacy as a default to conflict. I do not think we should always get involved, but no, I refuse to blame our diverse military individuals who come from all classes and political parties.
If you don't like something about a conflict, the politicians hold the control over that and that is were your criticism belongs.