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In reply to the discussion: If you've never served in the military than you can't criticize those who have. [View all]Recursion
(56,582 posts)76. I liked the line from Dr. Zhivago
"Others had better motives: they knew the times were critical, and wanted a man's (or woman's, nowadays -- Recursion) part to play in them."
I know there were times in Iraq that I held my squad's fire when another sergeant might have given the order, and that civilians were saved. I sleep ok at night.
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If you've never served in the military than you can't criticize those who have. [View all]
white_wolf
Jan 2013
OP
There was also a captain and there was a major who first volunteered to go to Afghanistan
RomneyLies
Jan 2013
#79
They aren't at fault for what the government did, but they are responsible for their own actions.
white_wolf
Jan 2013
#8
Makes about as much sense as blaming Wal-Mart door greeters for the evils of corporations
Major Nikon
Jan 2013
#20
No offense but that is a dumb comment to make. If I remember right Bush/Cheney were lying
southernyankeebelle
Jan 2013
#88
I would add that people don't join the military for patriotic or ideological reasons
Major Nikon
Jan 2013
#111
Well I know my dad and father-in-law both joined because of WWII but both liked the
southernyankeebelle
Jan 2013
#115
Don't blame E-1s for obeying orders in combat coming from O-10s reporting to the Commander in Chief.
jody
Jan 2013
#7
That's possibly the most naive thing (I'm being extremely charitable) I've ever read here. n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2013
#95
One can argue that you are just as guilty for not providing alternatives for these people.
Kaleva
Jan 2013
#104
No, you never "have to" enlist, period. Not one person capable of filling out the enlistment
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2013
#92
Those E-1s enlist to serve under CIC Obama you helped elect. If they have been misled as you claim,
jody
Jan 2013
#16
If jobs were out there, at living wages, I am betting a good number of recruits would not join.
white_wolf
Jan 2013
#32
You elected or failed to elect representatives to give the military their objectives
iiibbb
Jan 2013
#146
hey recursion, check out the holiday pic emailed to me from Marines in Afghanistan
Skittles
Jan 2013
#31
clicked your OP just to say "horse shit," only to find that we think pretty much alike....
mike_c
Jan 2013
#23
I'm curious, where have you heard that here? I've heard it elsewhere, and dismissed it as bullshit,
11 Bravo
Jan 2013
#25
I agree, short of someone at your front door pointing a gun at your head, or Hitler, there is
4 t 4
Jan 2013
#26
Right and/or wrong, you have a right to your own understandings & so do others. &
patrice
Jan 2013
#30
The military can not invade nations without orders from the civilian government.
Agnosticsherbet
Jan 2013
#45
That was Heinlein's idea in Starship Troopers. The vets simply said nobody else votes, and that was
leveymg
Jan 2013
#46
How so? I had nothing to do with the wars. I didn't elect the people who voted for them.
white_wolf
Jan 2013
#67
nope, I didn't alert on it, that is why I was in the middle of typing a reply to it
quinnox
Jan 2013
#127
"painting with a broad brush" is exactly what I thought the post I was responding to
quinnox
Jan 2013
#132
I wonder if the "you can't criticised the grunt" posters would be that forging to an invading
Arctic Dave
Jan 2013
#85
Wish that were so but there is a group that only want people who support their personal beliefs to
jody
Jan 2013
#113
If you've never been a snotty young campus Marxist, you can't criticize those who are.
Throd
Jan 2013
#120
Those same types of people who have made such statements are same type who criticized
We People
Jan 2013
#125