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Originally Posted by Sea Demon
This city also banned military recruiters from the city's public schools. |
Nothing wrong in that. In fact, by law it should be the rule that the military is not given access to school's registries of student's adresses, and should be permitted to approach them in any form or way until they are adult by law. Try to tempt juveniles into joining the military is highly immoral and a very disgusting practice from any ethical perpsective I could even vaguely imagine. The army/navy/air force is not a job like any other. It should be left to a young adult's mind alone, unmanipulated, untempted, and after sober reasoning of what military service and war is about, wether soembody volunatrily wants to join, or not. The recruiting practice in the US over here in Germany and apparently in other countries, too, is considered as one of the most disagreeable characteristics of the US society.
But due to different histories, war and martial violance and weapons have different status in the US, and in Europe. In WWI and WWII the US only experienced the attack on Hawai, and it is fair to say that thus it never has experienced what war with a foreign enemy could do to it's cities and homeland. But Pearl Harbour or 9/11 just compare to bombing Helgoland and leave the rest of the Third Reich untouched - nobody would have been impressed by that. that war is so easily triggered and considered acceptable by the US last but not least is coming from that American cities do not bear neither scars nor histories of having suffered the bombing and mass destruction by foreign nations, not to mention foreign occupations. the modern military defeats or draws (Vietnam, Korea, Iraq), only damage the American ego, and come at different strategic costs for foreign political perpsectives - the bright lights and loud sounds always happened to take place elsewhere. Seen that way it is understandable that America, never having seen it's modern cities in ruins, on the question of wether to go to war or not, feels easy to answer "Well, why not?" It simply never was hurt to the ammounts other nations have experienced the horrors of war. For america, using military force more or less appears to be a success story - at least to that degree that makes it think earlier than others that war and/or other kinds of more concealed military longterm operations are a legitimate option.
From there it is not far to indoctrinating children's minds to be blind about the glamour stories about war and military, and generally have a positive bias towards these things. But it remains to be manipulation and abusing of the weak and not-yet-strengthened minds and characters of juveniles. Irresponsible and unscrupulous.
If we would do exactly like that in Germany, all world would point fingers at us and yell "Nazi!" and "Hitlerjugend!" again. The method is exactly the same.