Spoken as someone clearly totally ignorant of actual military service vs what some liberal left leaning professor poured in your ear. I've walked both paths. I have served as an enlisted man in the USMC and I have Bachelors and Masters degrees in computer science from one of the oldest schools in the country, older than the country actually. The utter ignorance and disinformation with which you describe people willing to die in your place whether you agree with the reasons that bring that to pass or not is disgraceful and outright cowardice. What experience do you have to give your pandering any merit?
Disclosure: I'm both prior military and a scholar
The only addition I could think to make is this quote from Sir William Francis Butler; "The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards." (Though somewhat out of context it still seems appropriate.)
Cheers.
@hunterisgreat Oh, he doesn't have any experience. Anarchists are like communists. Everything's theoretical. In theory it'd be great if we abolished national, state and local government and rebuilt from the ground up. In practice it'd be a river of blood, but whatevs.
I see where you are coming from, but I disagree with you completely. I think people who are willing to trust and join the army if they have other available options are making a huge mistake. The majority of people in this country never asked for foreign wars that bring nothing but destruction. People dying in these conflicts are dying for no reason. If national pride makes you feel better that you risked your life for a pointless cause, then so be it.
It has nothing to do with trust of lack of options. Nothing to do with agreement with most of the wars we have been in. Nothing to do with national pride. I'm not sure at this point I can offer an explaination that you would appreciate or understand as you seem quite sure you already know the way things are.
τούτου μὲν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐγὼ σοφώτερός εἰμι· κινδυνεύει μὲν γὰρ ἡμῶν οὐδέτερος οὐδὲν καλὸν κἀγαθὸν εἰδέναι, ἀλλ᾽ οὗτος μὲν οἴεταί τι εἰδέναι οὐκ εἰδώς, ἐγὼ δέ, ὥσπερ οὖν οὐκ οἶδα, οὐδὲ οἴομαι· ἔοικα γοῦν τούτου γε σμικρῷ τινι αὐτῷ τούτῳ σοφώτερος εἶναι, ὅτι ἃ μὴ οἶδα οὐδὲ οἴομαι εἰδέναι.