Reply #66: Our guys in the military are in a tough spot because its their job

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to carry out the orders of the civilian leadership, whether they believe the civilian leadership to be competent or fuck ups. If they didn't we would have a military dictatorship akin to what Pakistan has currently. Its almost patriotic that they continue to do their duty obeying the civilian leadership when its clearly pushing a foolish, damaging counterproductive war. Obvious there are limits to this obediance, ie. war crimes or turning on the US citizenry, but this does not extend to incompetence or lack of judgment. That's our job to remove the incompetents through elections.