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Originally Posted by DeepSix
A family member is a retired brigadier general who worked in Europe and in the Pentagon. He refuses to discuss Rumsfeld or the war directly, even though it is evident from other things he says that he does not like the war. He believes, however, that it is inappropriate for military men, whether active or retired, to break ranks to publicly support one political side or the other (whether they are opposed to Rumsfeld or support him). That is not one of the duties of a soldier, and politics is not his battlefield.
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What utter horsepoopy. It is a soldiers responsibility to speak up if he see's something wrong, which these generals obviously see. If they see soldiers that to them are needlessly dieing it is their
moral duty to speak up. It also takes more guts to speak up then remain silent. So you can tell your family member that he is failing in his moral duty. This isn't WW3 fighting other countries with uniformed forces. This is something this country started and politicaly and militarily were unprepared to properly perform this mission. Also I doubt they are choosing political sides as something like 90% of the officer corp are republican.