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Originally Posted by Skybird

Point is, guys, I am totally critical of earning starting helps, business chances and such - by willing to join the military first. That is no antimilitarism by me. I simply find it to be an extremely bad idea to give the military such a massive influence on civil society, and to give it the baits needed to lure young people with their minds still undergoing their adolescence to go to the army. It is not a job like any other. Becasue if you think it to the end, your profession is to kill and destroy, if ordered. Everything else (keeping the peace, guarding the free world, deter attackers), is ways and attempts only to squirm around that statement. In the face of the high numbers of wars and operations the Us has been engaged in since WWII, it also is not convicning to abstract it to the levelö of idealism how nice the world and the job in the military is - as long as there is no war.

Don't try to distort me. On many occasions I have said myself that I would like to see another and stronger understanding for the need of a better funded military her ein europe. I just totally disagree on the status the military enjoys in civil society in the US, and I disagree on the easiness with which the decision in favour for wars are made in the US. I insist on seeing the military as what iot is: a tool of destruction and killing. That's why I am so hesitent to use, not to mention: to glorify it.

I think we have found something we agree upon beside Steel Beasts.

I find the loss our reliance on the Citizen Soldier since the end of WWII (which was won by citizen soldiers on all fronts, on the air, land, and sea) to be disheartening, and very dangerous.

If the United States is Rome, then Nazi Germany and the USSR are our combined Carthage. And Rome lost as much as she gained from the defeat of her archenemy.